sweetgrass encasing your soul salvaged by streetwalkers barren as the road we came on we broke the speed limit for pedestrians as ****** equestrians chased our shadows home joking, we laughed at the bones that framed our photographs i see elephants in your tone honorary delegates to the symphonyβs throne violins voicing interludes that are out of tune with young mermaids who create splashing inversions upon musical modes your composition sheets hold my soul in throes of solitude resplendent hues on the emptiness of nocturnes, etudes and poems