Touching streamers and
feeling fireworks, dancing
on glossy ice without shoes
on smiling below the surface,

packing snow with numb fingers
feeling brave, walking on the railing,
falling into sand, saying you believe
in something, forgetting someone,
writing it down and ripping it up
and trying to remember, breaking
records, setting standards, cracking
glass making noise being silenced,
building a cave to crawl into at night,
living inside it every day, curling lips
upward, telling half a secret in the
way you stare, running into the woods,
jumping into a lake, scrambling up rocks,
losing the trail but finding a path, and
walking, steadily through the thorns.