becoming

(2021. Phone notes that deserved to be their own poem. Becoming and being, verbing and nouning, etc. On my bus walls).

(i)

i knife the edge of the known—
where possible—
a living scab of existence, my bloody growing
body glowing as the extremest verge becoming

(ii)

cooling lava identifies:
hot rocks, hot pockets, eyes, a thing
changing less,
becoming more slowly
heat releasing sighs