Lincoln Park

Thinner and thinner,
Autonoesis,
Metanoesis,
Turning on themselves,
Thoughts trying to sleep,

Lions in shrinking
Cages, pacing rings.
One night, awareness
Slept in Chicago
In an apartment

Across from the zoo
And heard the lions
Roar mournfully with
The ambulances,
Strange combination.

Siren and lion,
The awareness asks
Itself what it is.
Thinner and thinner
The space where it lives.

The body doesn’t
Belong to it, want
Either. Emotions
Float it, not it them.
What is left to it?