BPR 50 | 2023
The bluish underside of your left arm is
From wrist to elbow latticed with white
And pink lines. The madness of their
Overlapping is like a game of pick-up sticks.
The stakes are graver, the lines a ladder
Leading to the next time you need
To try to get the hell out of you.
The little windows between the lines
Recall the times we’d draw with
Sidewalk chalk teetering hopscotches
The length of the whole block and
Throw pea gravel from under the gutters
To show us how far we could go on
The Sisyphean path to starting over again:
Never long enough to make
The game go on forever.