sphenoid

Sphenoid

If we play you must remain clear of the base

of my skull and then yours

but ultimately

the bases of everything

wedge shaped he

she batted her eyes, you said

it was a wink brief

possibly a flutter

mouselike droppings feature a cleanup in who?

median (divides) created for fissures

of two

a great and a small, no two greats and two smalls

entrapped

until endings in –ed were contagious and things slowed

in mud and in languages spoken on 5 continents

the others remained un – in - habitable for people built of two’s

also called butterfly:

cocooned and hatched

Temporal

Temporal

bones do not grow to be limitless

reigned in, set in motion

a root system is intricate, deep

We all consist of five senses:

1. of a don’t stop time

of tattoo guns going bzzzzzzzzzz stop bzzzzzzzzzzzz stop stop bzzzz

2. this waking moment, a present life

jolt to the here

3. we are temporary

4. the tense of a verb

active, static, both.

5. secular in laymen’s terms

no ecclesiastical exclamations, please

resembles

Frontal

Can this bone resemble—

wrinkles and puckered lips

yet rounded into heart shaped shells with radiating ribs

you a coupling of her and other(s)

bivalve halfed and un-smooth

Have you created a cockle of me, of my heart

oh clichés!

a tin roof slammed with rain

the region of my forehead hit with drops

I recede into a further room,

a cavity closet that is all dark