neutral

 


   to have "held the desert's cactus"; to have "laid on winter's snow"; to unpack out all the baggage; to have reached that neu-tr-al....


     like a human camera record, filming every tic and toc; running steady on the clock, in between the cold and hot;


never fully deep engaged, eyes that wander quite a lot; as if one's not really here; just a soul stuck in a bod