from Step

a perfect world
a trail widens out the
code of indents

channels serving
both prey and
interpreters

arms back, re-
laxed nerves as
in a vat





a perfect world
placed hand on
the breathing field

the choices are circled
until so dark they
must be chosen over

someone in estranged
weather passed past
“these doors don’t”

Copyright Credit: George Albon, from Step. Copyright © 2006 by George Albon. Reprinted by permission of Post-Apollo Press.
Source: Step (The Post-Apollo Press, 2006)