Ether
Emi Kodama, Thomas Jouanjean
The ticking of my mechanical heart keeps me up at night when I'm not in the city
In the city it hides in shouts, sirens
Coming and going, leaving and staying
Just like my heartbeat
Restless
Eager
Tossing
Turning
Once the hard floor I lie awake
Listening to my heart beat overlapped by my shallow breathing
The walls pressing down, the tree's shadow scraping at stars
To gouge them out of a moonless sky
Clutching and clawing into the endless
There is nowhere to go