SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

collected steel spheres of past memories compressed into a

tightly bound hypothetical spiral

glittering like arizona desert mountain ozone

coils around him

snakelike muscular emotions contracting without remorse

squeezing the life out of him as he casually views himself

from a distance

through faintly shaded green glass

ignoring his predicament

concentrating to his last breath on completing his

self-engineered solitary confinement

deleting persons from his life

with great subtle precision

fueled by the 77^th false dream he experienced yesterday

when captured in a rare display of enchantment