To the angel on the side of my room
with a dim-lit candle in hand,
that cradles the flame like a sweater.
I say to you this:
as you feed it bits and paper,
so the fire won’t falter into smoke—
is it not easier to snuff out light
than choke on burning corpse?
The state you’ve found yourself in is like a sport,
your halo fallen to your waist,
circling in place like hula hoops—
a perpetual state of ...