Feels

by Daniel Conlan

So reach out and
touch something with
your fingers and feel it
on your brain. If
it's the hot stove more
your spine. More sense
than feel; tissue-damage
which is less conceptual.
Don't misunderstand:
A Southbound exists as well
and concept can bite
draw blood, teeth marks
all of it. Maybe most obvi-
ously, dread will move south
and it coils, but each is an
animal seeking to breed or
glut then rest and even
in sleep a piece of your
body's between its jaws.