Flick flakes fleck from fraught flutes;
I won't repeat.
I can't say why.
I is the word that demands
a more fair hearing than the
table attached to a chair
with a wire frame place
to put the extra books.
I covered them in paper
by rule
per half year
and snuck from
day to day
and haze to gaze
without so much
asked or answered.
Memorial reconsideration;
we made out in a car
"I woke up in a car"
fog in the car
a flashlight from
another car.
What obsession,
what addiction,
might subtract from
whichever purposes
were meant to be entrained?
I ask again now,
wary again
of repetition,
scores of years
not yet passed
as I press my heel
into the top of the other ankle
and wish that dad was back.
Roman Ryan 