worlds are collapsing, rising; dictators exhale, entangle the veins of world some ideas preserve salty streets like janitors of the dark summer keeps the score of perfumed nights I indulge in the womb of heat wounds are retreating in sequestered spaces - the seeds of the future. there is a chill in the air, dread strikes near and far light flows like the dance stuck in my bones everywhere the pulse of time, dreaming