Eric has fallen asleep and dissolved,
in cream sheets full of fingerprints,
soiled identifying
fumbling with the knots of tourniquets

that hold Eric’s full heart,
as the examiner pulls apart
clots of identifying marks,
Eric fears to learn all he was was those

fingers
trying to pull off his
blank white page, leaving such heavy
clumps of

ingers
ying to pull of
lank white pa

ing such he
ps