There   

Wild thoughts -- phenomena
        in every sort of commotion --
      float above my mind
                forming enmeshments
            with everything ...
 
        

My various lives hover over the words,                                   always remaining           the same distance away ...                         Staring into the mirror                    on my dresser                         I would           like    to enter that world-in-reverse.           My gaze                shifts        to the image in an old tarnished frame.           Uneven surfaces   have always affected                my mind. Oh how I wish                     life was           as complete      as the wedding ring              hanging around my grandmother's neck.        She stares from the photograph                    at someone over my shoulder.                          Her steady                  liquid gaze      is sultry and dark;             her mood, absent.         There is always           a ghost of a smile                about her mouth, though, and love for someone,               or something, seems to be there.                        I touch her lips with my soul.