Playing Defense

The sudden helpless impact
Of knees on tile,
Mind twisted into two clasped hands
Of ask,
Is to a heart
More used to flying golden,
To tasting the glitter of life
In the curves of creviced hope,
A crash to crumble the foundations
Of every crash that has come before.
Finally
The translation of need
Made visible:
The physicality
Of I want
Of please
Presented in pixelated,
Anatomical clarity of grasp
Under the sterile apathy of fluorescence
For an audience of one.

6/15/08