Temporalasis

If you wish to make a call,
please hang-up and try again
Otherwise, you have left your phone off the hook

Finger to the radio dial
[seek, scan, pause, seek, stop]
I swear I heard this song in the supermarket

The same instant, my name is spoken
I turn my head wide-eyed,
the air is empty like a mules womb

I hear a phone rattle
in a distant crevice of my vestibule
There is no phone