bricks break, spread patterns around picture br frames, spider webs leading up, down, in br br and the sidewalk breaks below, with pounds br of tip toe run walk feet, the glass breaks br br to a window down the street outside, inside br a heart takes a last breath, and everything br br breaks or breaks away from something, I hold br on, watch swallows dive from rooftops in their br br mad love making fall, plummet towards br where everything ends in a stone breath goodbye, I br br look up from cracked pavement, over soot rooftops br the night breaks into dawnbr br Ben Paynterbr br