Hard Roundness forms undercut

grasps and clings to darker patches

Locked in the knot

unable to fall back

slowly spread onto cushion night

steel light beyond

waits the glint of a blade

shivers of radiance

on waves at dawn

blood in my body stretches

a band, taught, struck vibrates

quivers a note

fades lower into silence

shifting of feet on gravel

dimly deeper, the path appears as I step

balanced on the thin edge of now.