dejectedly I harden into
a masked myself with
rockhard facade, sharply cruel
with slicing eyebrows and
bludgeoning nose and
sucking eyes, I could
swallow you and your brother
whole.
she, oblivious, plows through
my silence, sets sail on it —
crusty barnacles stonily set themselves
on her hull
my winds, silent, wish to
rip to shreds her sails but
they only encourage waves and
endless waves of words,
fruitless futile useless words,
building upon themselves, millions
piling up into one great hollow tide.
it splashes over me,
my rocky face.
I look to the darting sparrows for patience.
I wake up new again, somehow,
seas calmed.
(5.18.2019)
