Island Vapors

the wooden ladder on the wall depends upon two separate rooms growing higher
and higher with every hesitative move
on all-fours I start to crawl against the wall and upwardly
then I grow tired of trying to walk on floors that have no cling anymore or if
they ever did
the wooden ladder in the yard hangs along two conifers growing higher and
higher with every sun and every moon
made and broke in a hilly island place you won’t break I won’t break—I embrace
my home base
island vapors loom
the wooden ladder isn’t long (it only goes from right to wrong) it goes from a
place where I have been to where I’m going
all alone in a hilly island place you won’t break I won’t break—I embrace my
home base island vapors loom
move
island place you won’t break
I won’t break—I embrace my home base island vapors loom