i was desperately trying
to keep up my correspondence
when a pack of dogs’ barks
erupted from surrounding apartments-
 
concentration shot i stepped
off the patio and into the sun.
with the pen in my hand i had nothing,
but now glitzed and golden
my skin felt tight with you
tunneling throughout me and back.
i noticed the fence and dead grass
seemed farther away-
i was growing taller.
expanding, stretching
tingling and jazzed
i laughed!
this feels like math!
buoyant balance!
i am a plastic fetus
fit perfectly into
the model of pregnancy
in your doctor’s office-
standing there a good eight inches higher
than usual with drooping, smiling arms
i felt my stupid dumb good looking face
melting from overexposure yet unable
to erase a smile choking me out and through
the eyes were stretching prisms
disappearing into white-blue sky
fried! untied! untetherable! immaculate
and buzzed nicely, souls unmeasurable-
 
i sat back down into the shaded patio
this!
and those dogs can bark all they want
they can’t ruin
shit.