periodic

will it catch?
will it stick?
if i break and press and obfuscate,
asking where it is under the hum:
are you fast? are you dear?
whose eyes look out of ours each night?
are you still? does it settle in your lungs like spores,
like rust in the nail through your lip?
all over over grains and counting years like sand,
taste of teeth between each word
roll over try again