Day 6 of 30

MONUMENTAL
(for a young lady I met today in San Antonio)

a murmuring heart thanked me today
for being an obelisk of brittle
bones breaking publicly
crumbling in its presence
calling it cousin and comrade
and on beat and off beat
and nothing not normal

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