comprehending it for the first time, struck numb and wretched. uncomprehending shivers rib joy with age-- agendas churn even as a salty dryness barely clears-- eyes contort in livid forms of love
vacant carols fail to mute calamity, though once a bluebird sang at snow abstracted from the core-- fly away from a season's playlist monoculture, reinvent this home, audacious now to be a courage happiness for youthful eyes no longer simply young