signals

my mariana shifts      
in sodium      
     
i'm alone  
floating in this red river  
     
for the sun bleached world      
 
stifling      
     
as if atoms  
were all that we are      
     
i'm going back to zero now  
let it swirl in my gut like crude oil and brine      
     
     
living for love  
or for nothing at all  
   
it really doesn't matter
it's all the same
     
     
there was an iridium flare      
like a wound      
in the sky