Having offered body, brain and soul
as scaffold
hands crawl up
my ribcage rung on rung
crawl over cortical folds
dip from my lips
their honeyed flow.

Bio-tool for conceptual reframings
reshapes to accommodate
each scrambling ascent
becomes so wise
quiveringly contextually alert
a situated mediating device
with no off button.

On schedule
to implode
as overworked joints, structural components
mentally cartwheel towards
memory's junk heap.