421: attention never properly given breaks form

in seventh grade I’d just become aware boys friends with more appeal more attention more attraction more boys she road next to me traffic slow confining we rode our bikes to and from always nothing new hit she fell I jumped wrist trapped she was following me...

420: I had to go all the way back

memory messes me up I had to go back to the days in which brothers teased sister had to hold hand come along neighborhood boys rode furiously past carelessly taunting now I know simply full of wonder mystery unsolved frustrated to not know so much I had to go back for...

419: notes upon the sidewalk

we wrote them in chalk back in the day white only always broken a nub clutched in nubby fingers lines we called words in and amongst the hop scotch double dutch four square yesterday still there isn’t vision an amazing thing awe-full truly I mean awe filled...

418: looking for a let

to let: allow give permission take for rent at the exact center of my life a watershed of before spilling like a wedding dress train of royalty or a red carpet walked upon forward the unknown equally spilled unforeseeable anticipation not unlike birth though it was...

417: what got me here won’t get me there

colors canvas paper brush the long sweep of hog-bristle touched with bits of bitumen delight awe wonder disbelief leading a tangled course across blank page until order falls away begins again starts anew pen ink paper hope tied up in years experience nestled...