the fragile boy shepherds his pulse among bigger bodies and into the bruise and into the bruise’s unkissable bone, that grey area where holstered his invisible gun dispenses with metaphor and metaphors from a pep rally held in theory in a stranger’s garage where his brother’s accidental birth expired in his brother who himself was part bruise part cream added to the bruise by a father whose lightning stormed from the hip of god during a dream had by a full gallon of milk mother held steady for hours, back to back, above the form of it unstirred