O! You scrounge!



O! You scrounge!

Blathering! The past

punches your shoulder, taps you
in the solar plexus, 
again another shot
to the sternum, 
appendectomy
with a mattock—rough stigmas fold
the body in half, time bursts assignments,

which open again, ascend to the source,
on a liquid stream, a ladder,

Heaven’s voice.