Posted for towing
best - 
to keep things going.

Take it in 
let it swim. 

Wade through traps, 
opening 
and closing.

Knocks 
over a corpse
finds its head glowing -

Comes awake.
Testy with torments,
the give and take. 

Lavish lies
where innocence fled.

Truth flashing
in fugitive minds - 

Cruel wealth 
of scale, 
murderous detail.

Weeps that exult
of sweet tumult.

Angling abstractions 
as traction  
as bait -

Breathless plies 
hidden in breed

acknowledges beauty
performs a need.

Awakens
to remains of day

to weather it out
and anchors away.