human skull, glass
Mudder Museum, Philadelphia
I am more
than those
last seconds
wobble and
then the
evaporation
of hope
grace on a
wire I was
once
elegance
perfect
wonder
almost
falling is
harder than
not anyone
can walk a
wire only
the best can
pretend to
fall for
nothing’s
easier than
failure
there’s
a quick grip
on the stale
absence
of the air
then ground
living is hard
hard is an
only child
making
a pieta in his
mother’s
arms hard is
a mother
walking
away
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