ed

artisan of feverish displays

of muscles lit on fire

of dirty spoons

maker of holy things

and secrets.

builder of boxes

and my keeper of affect

blazing white-hot steel

bending rusty nails

feeler of desertion

and my pretender.

artisan of valued heaps

of wet tea bags

and of flattened utensils

of torn plastic.

preacher of failure

of discontent

believer in silence

and maker of reality

artisan of absence

of tangible nothingness

and of you being gone

or wanting to be gone.