myrrh
speaking of ‘the body’
[ must we ] take care
with catharsis, with tongue
*
this is more of a comment,
then a question,
a refined sense of time
*
half a window-wall of books
stacked
to the height of a child
*
for a soma
to be a psyche [ must it ]
know a host [ must it ]
wear a veil
*
esse quam videri
sap. shoe, matte
wool grey black
*
the quick, the lung fluid
dried yesterday. V reads
from Grief: a forest, trees
*
this person is no longer
[ called I ] this person
can see across the room
—
Timothy Ashley Leo is the author of The Dog’s Letter (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2026). His work appears in Annulet, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, Nat. Brut, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago, where he edits poetry with DIALOGIST.