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.