Nathan Cornell (Greensboro, NC)
The failed exposition; hereafter
Pocketing ‒ praying ‒ pining
For salvation; for rapture in
Anybody ‒ anywhere ‒ anything
To make it easier: cover the wound;
Silence ‒subdue ‒ survive
The fascination; obsess over the
Passion ‒ piety ‒ pulchritude
Can’t be hidden; a renaissance of
Learning ‒ loving ‒ languishing
Dysphoria; the caged heart is
Feeling ‒ fluttering ‒ fighting
The battle; unending in
Plight ‒ predicament ‒ pondering
The veracity of words on what to
Bear‒become ‒ befit
Your own definition of happiness;
Accepting ‒ admiring ‒ acting
Out