Waiting
a left turn
into a traffic of
unending obligations,
I see the future
past
many times
before I met you,
before we meet again,
down that white path
passing through
the unnatural
crevasse
to await your inspection,
you doctor of skin,
in the papered room
with the pink antiseptic push jar
and the pink plastic-lined silver basket—
cold.
I want to break that safety glass
into thousands of pieces
of nothing.
No large s(hard*
to penetrate the heart
of this matter).
- The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
- The theory or view that the self is the only reality.
shard n.
- A piece of broken pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig; a potsherd.
- A fragment of a brittle substance, as of glass or metal.
- A small piece or part: “shards of intense emotional relationships that once existed” (Maggie Scarf).