these limbs knocking windows     this wind this parched mouth     this drought rain tied back in grey drapes     one nudge and the whole jerry rigged mast     will collapse this flood   these saturated shoes     puncture wound induced by walking   the ruined foot   this     journey inter- rupted to patch holes   this broken boat     these weeds fish weaving in   the quiet mud     this sucking slow exhale   this pull toward     sleep   this nightshift   this turning     this insistence