A Fingernail’s Edge (Bitten Off)

A tiny piece of what we can see;
the definition of every vision.

Derision is one response
friendly to the nihilist. 

Awe summed furious desire
fires the unretired buyer.

A middle hound mounts 
the edge of the mountain

a few feet into the foothills
whose creek swells down 

like a fountain of moderate
escape. The ground fizzes

only as groundless as the 
mind on the mound

pitching the picture 
of October as sober

as the hand that 
bites rock and finds

surprise teeth
can chew.