Pluralisms

to challenge sleep to go against

the one-eyed god

of  victimhood:

Polyphemus by way of  Redon

rising, open eye ripe

with stupid gazing.

How dare you look at me?

plural tense: now and then, to bed and back again and

one more war.

The oral rinse of moral sense can lift the fence

of expectation, expand the dome

of  tolerance. I, too, arose from

the unthinkable, used to Nobody

responding loud as circumstance.