excerpt from “Tic and Tap”

I tic like a using toy

of tall ideas to tap my way

through the space

of the outside world

and I sometimes game

the space like a backward spiral that

tries to find its way.

I tic because I want to

be settled and I tap

to feel the way the comings arrange

me like a forge

inside my eyes.

I am feeling all

the time

and I am the toy

talker who

is always 

toy touching

to control

the forging 

environment that is

always touching me.