Ex Ax

Freedom develops into a smile
when rains break up
the new relationship
will spurn the exes
whose axes promise
high taxes, low uses,
a lot of late-night 
texts, as in candlelight
and the gospel
according to like
in which a new 
porthole is carved
too low, below the
water line, and this
ship is going where
every sense of release
ends up: to the bottom
of what we can't see.