loose the knot

the wallet sinking in a bathtub

is a mouth open on the word

if was if if gnats were

gathered on a cloud's open

lip the cloud churns

your laundry blown

across a lawn fire

flickers in a window open

on a word off stuck

inside your throat which

is a lake beneath the earth a

rope burning in reverse

if if if if if if if if if off

- John M. Bennett