battered hope chest

and the muted cries from the living room cracks

thick layers of dead leaves block the basement door

and the violence of one turns to violence of two

and the motionless silence of the tools

and the humidity in the car

from a different age

settle down, troublesomes,

settle down

and the secret in the forest

scars they don´t scab

scars they just seep

welcome to disturbance

put me in there

(SGS, 2021)