breaking through a writer's block

such is the unmasking

of lapse around my heart

as if pieces were cut away

carefully, unheard of abolition

that even the most insolent of intruders

those clumsy sentences that 
I throw into the manifest emptiness

roll back at me in surprised futility

such is the space that opens

divides the flesh around

the proffering silence

as if a mute votive

extinguished itself in that

gathering of stillness

until, as if hallucinated

a slow release

hesitant seizing

flash of expression

with monosyllabic strokes

of gentle labials and dislocated sibilants

something close to dazzlement
draws a first breath within