Breaks

Take one. Give one. Be one.
Have one hatchet your bones.
Clean break. Psychotic break.

Spring break. Those are the breaks.
There are more. Missouri
River Breaks, Montana,

Recall visiting them?
Recall all the landscape
Breaks near the highway sides

Where you would stand and stare
Over the broken stones,
Thinking how you would break?

Delusions are called breaks
With reality, but
They’re less like prison breaks,

More like solitary
Confinement in one’s own
Corner cell of the real—

Fractures, ruptures, pauses,
Gaps In stratigraphy,
Suggestions of nothing.