I was in a place
where I couldn’t see or hear
I couldn’t feel what I touched
couldn’t taste my tongue
but when I came back
I remembered a field of bodies
we stared with eyes
that couldn’t see
but I had enough power in my arms
to pull me out from under
and by tugging on legs and heads
I got free.
I took a look back
and saw ten thousand elbows
hips and knees.
They belonged to people,
and I didn’t know why
I wasn’t one of them.