from Thingking, which was published in August by Factory Hollow Press.

One third of Pompeii remains
interred, preserved for future

methods of discerning it.
Should I too leave a few

things unheeded in interest
of finer picks and sieves,

even when of same
my bones are made?

A cast of space, my empty
form, arms thrown open

to what would bury and be
then with me. Intact amphora,

vitrified face. Content is a pane
through which to see its ruin.