You are well water, unraveled by

muddied hands out of a dried lake

of madness where all things lose

their meaning as they mingle together.

You, that creature of pale light,

the disembodied one, I hear you breathe.

Out of that well, I will fish your body,

slather it with light so it will begin to die.

Kristine Ong Muslim’s publication credits and recent acceptances include more than six hundred poems and stories in over two hundred journals and magazines worldwide, such as Bellevue Literary Review, Chronogram, Cordite, Etchings, Grasslimb, Merge Poetry, New Madrid, Pearl, Paradigm, The Pedestal Magazine, Scrivener Creative Review, and Turnrow.