wednesday

for continuity i will continue
i still spell out the word on the tip of my
tongue
mashing it into syllables in order to derive
the tangled letters' line

adrenaline kicked in today
and my fingers raced across the keys
and though they trembled they stuck.
(the music sailed through the day
picking out the times of silence with crescendoes
and the space of woes with harmonies
the dissonance, the strums)

light-headed the feet on
the pavement quieted my murmurs
and though you lingered it was more
in the lack minded words of my friends
and less in the tedious minutes of my
head which blew all out of proportion
like when you take your fingers into a little circle
and peer through and everything seems larger
before you move away