incontinence

peace everywhere found, everywhere broken by
ragged screams, homeostasis disrupted the
slide down echoes back to the rest. some
listen, fewer hear,
the touch, as if probing the fluid
solid of bone beneath, searches without object,
softens, strengthens along the way.
you've not hovered into fallow air.
the pad of a digit finds its way beyond bound layers
of word ramparts, the satellite signal diffuses
to grit that won't lend chew. inedible,
still hear it, its pounding frequency:
can't you see you're made to bend?