November 19, 2013

Quilts, boutis, bonsai s

Complications and breaches,
stalemates-
a banquet's reheated leftovers.
 Forced alliances,
like corsets embracing unsuspecting, tender vertebrae,
tethering ill-matched unions.

Clipped dreams, broken hearts set in stony casts, pillow-stuffing protection offered by addictions,
your life, a cultivated distortion of Eden.

A road taken without  destination foretold,
yet a path preordained.

Patterns arranged in the randomness of your genes,
stitched inheritance of others' pasts,
selvages of their circles.

Is it stubborn frugality, proud masochism
or mere intent to find  truth
and retell the story of being?

Constriction, rendering, image,
 creation-
Here is your tome's book cover,
your life all in between.