Prose: For When Poetry Is Not Quite Enough

Acquaintances can be made
Through pleasantries: 
Sentences incomplete
To indicate I see
Without you understand
Should there be a need
For an articulation
Of specificity 
And diction
We should find ourselves
At the mercy of the medium
Of the moment:
Prose, to the windows
High as they are
Paragraphs to the
Doors and keys,
Ajars; perpendicular
Spines, folded embossed
With line after line
Printed, tossed