make me into pieces and reassemble me
wash my face in the kitchen sink, scrub the soot from my scalp
nurse me and I will be whole.
(it's not a symbiotic creature)
I wanted give and take, you god, you lover, you brother, you soldier
an art you have half mastered, have my hands
and six feet under, I am crafted to stone
bid me away, the waves wash this into a nothingness of
once hands, once embrace, once love songs, once song birds.
finch on the feeder, sentinel
I was nursed, I was whole
an art you half mastered, you god, you lover, you soldier
backturning was not a skill you forgot for me
"I love you because you're exactly like everyone else"
finch on the feeder, sentinel
(are you a symbiotic creature?)
tell me I'm different.