A/N: Written for:
Freeverse Poetry Boot Camp, #23 – hot
Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompts #317 – noise
1. The Cargo Box
The box should be stifling in the summer heat
but it's not: just still and slightly damp
and the critters in the dead-space of his brain chatter
and make up the noise – because that's his home;
that's a coffin; that's the black hole
in which he was born
and in which he lives.
