I wish to talk about the soul without talking about the soul

Cheap child’s toy/ incompetent user/ pilot error—tangled and hanging

Sway, spin, climb, and fall on its ladder its helix of string

Pleuston (meaning dwelling on the surface)

(meaning sail meaning float)

See also: man-o’-war

War the PIE root of which means to bring into a state of confusion

Glaucous/Glaucus one meaning a dragon who lives on the bottom of the top which is also the top of the bottom

Also an ocean god of prophecy

The other the color of the sea the name of a bird

Sometimes the geese are so high their voices come as the creak and slap
of a screen door one county over

Wind through the pines wind pine pine wind.

Pine to long for hopelessly from the root meaning to starve also to suffer

Pine also to swell and be fat

Balloon stapled to sternum—long string (again a string a tether)

Wanting both to fly and to stay

The soft dark between streetlights

Silly putty

Internal combustion engine prone to stutters fits of sharp joy

Parasite feeding on the body’s metabolic fire

Watcher as recursion errors bloom like yeast

Veraison which is to say the onset of ripening

Bloom as in protection

As in the early stages of rot