If it was not what you wanted
Foggy-blue ripples
Distorted reflections
Protracted pursuit since The fall
Flowers throughout shall be proof
It was that which you most needed
Crystalline Voice
Clearest bright eyes
Checkered Flag after all
From the dusty nearby corner
An isosceles scrap-wood of a thing
Unintentional it seems
Crammed in its acute condition
‘neath the uneven crack
The lumbering, commercial door
Drafty on cold days
Chipped-paint, metallic creak reminding
Facilitating
Nothing more than standard deliveries
9-5, Monday through Friday
Plus angry employees
No special deliveries here
Only sweat and swear-word tears
I am
Soft elbows have always been
Part of the body I live in
It means I can’t deflect cruelty
Off any sharp angles on me
For there are none, not one
The effects, I have absorbed them
I am the same as then
The rosette of a girl I’ve always been
My freshly shampooed hair, towel-wrapped
Willingly given to cover a friends’ back
The harsh temps will have not changed me
Soft elbows I will always be
How
Are you handling this
The noise, increasing, asks
I long ago learned to shut up
I can only answer
I meme
Picking up each piece of all that falls
The thousands of them
While the fluorescent hums
I will stay
I will stay
He needs me
The sounds rise
Echo and pin-ball bounce
Through the hollow
That hour spent asleep
Shall ruin entire evenings
Be there primrose paths