Seamstress

she needs something to
smooth out the wrinkes
increase the chance he will find no lapse in face
when he runs his fingers past a point she will
play games with sandy creams and lectures on the
nature of elasticity watch
documentaries on how
a ball bouces back
in her court
yard she
divides duties with ashes and
vines and
borers
which:
of you will do
the bleeding the
seeding the
spreading of dieing she
waters posies wilting
it is
catch-up or
let-go but
no chance of gauzy growth on her
fingers pruned no
apptitude for
height worth trellis training a
bird to
sit still she had
no span of
wing and sought
cultivation in
journals the
medical profession re:
sense of touch
it is
one of five basic
like writes with her toes and prints
the same sketches over
over so there is more and
puts blood on her hands he will think
there is more.
if it seems