Posted in Truth

Intuition

Posted on by tq1695

She had been a ballerina
movement was confirmation
poised
exact
graceful.

But here? Doing this?
A growth spurt
too much height
not enough thinness.

Disappointment attempts laughter
it doesn’t work.
A pause, savage and kind
professional regret
I have my own.

This she knows
without being told.
Different and similar
we form a friendship
of sorts.

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Most of my life has been spent on the bench, occasionally called into the game by extravagance or attenuation. Waiting has turned a loner into a recorder - nondescript and inconsequential, more not noticed than overlooked - the non-vantage point of children not yet considered old enough to understand. Orphaned Islands (Un)poetry is a lifetime of picking anecdotes up and not throwing them away. Stories collected like odds and ends placed in a box in the basement, the garage, the garden shed - uncertain as to what their use might be but knowing that one day there might be one.