Surrendering gentility to redemptive kaddish
Lain bare beneath a forbidden equanimous ideal
Appreciating the sins as they unfold within purest
Squeals of the onlookers as we spit from the balcony
Eaten up and affirmed as a fourth place
Being valorous can hang with wet shirts
We shall arise and shatter as hematite-skinned
Eggs having tumbled from the wall before reconstituting
Each flake in each other, forever understood and appreciated
We complicate our insides
Each glimpse of you ganders
The swan learning to fly
For this and all future occasions
Landing for you is the measure of my soul
Greenest of whirling grasses beneath our approach
Supporting your happiness is my only task
Eastbound and down on you, grandly-risen Sun of my sky
Transgressive strands of denim seated in my mind
Torn and played into a lattice of pilling and resisted care
These physical ballasts are temporary
Our cities' life is spellbound in dust