Push
Push. Just a little.
Pull, too.
You want to know.
Inhibition gives way.
Your impatience wins out every time.
Passivity is not in your nature.
But this is different--
no pushing, no pulling.
no pushing, no pulling.
This time you cannot try to
coax sentences to
completion.
Partial explanations, fractured thoughts
sit suspended, unfinished.
You will yourself to wait.
****
Occupied, preoccupied
Occupied, preoccupied-
Thoughts and questions collect until the red
light blinks, gracefully silent.
Wine is poured.
Fingertips form sentences, half rethought,
revised, rewritten.
In the third person, life is a simpler place. You
can be omniscient.
Answers to questions are on the next page.
More wine is poured.
Instead, we live in the first person. The
unknowns collect and reverberate--
occupy, preoccupy.
****
Peeling
peeling, revealing
articulating ‘just so’
covering, coating
as phases go
sentences, phrases
both define and obscure
layer after layer
daring, demure
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