I’ve been asking gravity
to hold me right where I stand
I’ve been training the mirror
trying to get it to tell the truth
me and a few shadows
staring back like bad news
I’ve been teaching the silence
to speak the true names of things
I had to practice politeness yet
I don’t waste time to polish my cracks
I keep myself busy loving whom I can
with every fermenting fragment
exposed like a stone in the sun
left alone in the torrential light