after Othuke Umukoro

airtight, movement as adjourned by wind states that
motion beings are impermeable dead weights.
at third reading, intimate ghosts become parts of our speech.

many in wood alphabets: as names of any person, habitat/place or jinn.
the rest as pronoun, used instead for harm—in ways that injure itself.

first reading moves the notion that at fair hearing,
in God's creation without a work permit,
man is mud in motion & tomb at sleep.
all men are wired for rest.

second reading affirms, should a soul miss its route to time-travel at bed,
it becomes a felony (say the consequence feels slightly like aging, in custody of a
charmed space).
grey breathing mud, dismantling empathy in vows to power a disappearance.

In redress of third reading, private ghosts often drift like treason:
raw force, aiming at the betrayal of a loved one.

somewhere, a bench of ghosts concludes:
"no inanimate relative should answer for how we scratch the surface of our grief."
since the clawing of a new death,
we all have been arraigning the same ghost.
his body—trayed loudly like an exhibit.