circumscribed circumstances circumspect
~
*these then
the circumstances,
that circumscribe
my essentials
the surround-sound orb walls of choices
made and yet-to-be-made delimiting me,
making me wary of the unforeseen,
more circumspect of what I will someday have chosen
recall standing on the now crushed,
destroyed subway platform of the
Cortlandt Street Station,
debating
take this job or that
took the one but a crow mile fly away
(and not the one that didn't survive)
come that day,
me, audience observer then,, not one of the
death undefying unwilling circus performers, and heroes,
when I pass the covered up burial sight,
the many nearby and forever crinkly crape draped firehouses,
or open the drawer where
I have
saved the tidbits of that
particular day's memories walk home,
a covenant reaffirmed,
a circumcision of the soul renewed
a circumcision upon the soul,
the renewed cut, sheds, allows some light
into the circularity of life*
9/11/16