1.

Everything leaves a trail.

2.

Worm crawled out of the nightsoaked

soil and burrowed through the unbroken sky.

3.

Stars passed through worm like tender

stones.

4.

Bright casings were fixed in the pattern

worm made.

5.

Cradled by ballast, worm

was carried over a vault of black water.

6.

Worm journeyed, open-mouthed, through the unfounded

dark.

7.

Worm was piloted by desire.

Worm said, I am an inkling,

8.

a diversion, the scrawl

of a closed fist traveling through the air.

9.

I am without precedent, but

I am no dead end.

10.

World was a bulb of blind matter

sleeping in the dirt.

11.

Is it good? cried worm.

Let me taste it and see.