It finally ended

         wrangling

         queries

         Epoch bundled

         exploits crated

         intentions blunted

         molests forgotten

         Archives exhausted.

         

         All in place

         tucked

         buried

         Room to hurdle

         motion frontwards

         nod forward

         blueprint blurred

         Clarity wondered.

         Route rocked

         clogged

         choked

         Byway strewn

         trek bunged

         march fouled

         progress foiled

         Forthcoming unnavigable.

         Stuck in mud

         mudstuck

         stuck

         Daylight seeping

         headlong charge

         dash assault

         lunatic haste

         Forever mudbound.

Undertrained

Overwrought

Underbrained

Overfraught

No I won’t

Yes I see

No you don’t

Yes agreed

         In a clear

         skyblue

         free

         A passage pure

         bounding lope

         hoppy bounce

         rocket launch

         Escape date.

         In the gale

         sunday

         sail

         Forty knots

         bow sinking

         typhoon waves

         ho land

         An empty horizon.

         Maiden mountain climb

         dozen

         classes

         Warning of snakes

         warning rockslides

         mountain lions

         summit conquered

         Nothing happened.

         Midnight moon bath

         rooftop

         naked

         Moonlight illumines

         midwaist fat

         inches more

         beaming noble

         Life authentication.

Oof.

Smack.

Boof.

Ack.

Look there

knock knees

celebrity fanfare

Not for me.

         A father looms

         cribside

         ill-omened

         Taunting heckling

         baby snuffles

         eyes padlocked

         ears feigning

         Performing deep sleep.

         One on face

         hooked

         pirate-like

         Another on forearm

         raised keloid

         atrophic pockmarks

         shoulder hypertrophic

         Heart scars invisible.

         Relapse double pneumonia

         hospital

         oxygen

         Rush to work

         fever phlegm

         chest pain

         incorrect diagnosis

         Not illness suicide.

         Hey impossible

         sun

         up

         Unpredicted new day

         survived vanquished

         yesterday’s firestorm

         horrors hellholes

         Miracle dawn.

Dumbluck

Grandplan

Thunderstruck

Fate of man

Follow dots

Spurn advice

Pray a lot

Roll the dice

         Takes precise aim

         center

         target

         Deep breath

         pulls the trigger

         bullet words

         vicious bullseye

         Verbal revenge.