searching for certainty,

starting with this.

see how it ends.

a wall.

boundaries,

reinforcing

reinforcing

boundaries,

but where to punctuate?

(move your foot please,
i'd like to end where you're standing)


sifting through files

and in a soundless sorting,

a wall.

boundaries,

reinforcing

reinforcing

but where to punch-you-at?


in the midst of all this

her unheeded advice

don't overlove

it's demeaning

boundaries

reinforcing

reinforcing


i ask,

though it doesn't matter what you write here,

what if all of these years

you've been punctuating air?


but she can't hear it.

not over the

reinforcing.

reinforcing.