Sea air shallows
rain sparkles the morning
night’s deep millibars
throb below brows
yesterday’s air stagnant
around my eyes
presses pocketed mucus
folds swollen
by pollen and dust
within unyielding
bone that shapes the face
it cannot escape
enclosed pressure
capillaries constrict starved
neurons release chemical
pulsars of pain
up dendrites down
generations of sisters
to mother-stem stars
galaxy of neurons
primeval code.
The weather has changed
fall upon us.