brick wall
quiet as a choice
quiet as a new
thought I’d be against
you, thought I’d be good
this time I’m really
ready to reveal
the realer, better
person inside me
I speak to the brick
walled off from you all,
divine revela-
tion delivered to
you, thank you for your
patience against my
self-made masonry
shoot-em-up brick wall
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author’s note:
the form is entirely the product of me reading the introduction (and little more) to Stephanie McCarter’s translation of the Metamorphoses by Ovid. reading the wikipedia pages for the forms reminds me how scary classicism is as a field. they have so many words. utterly terrifying.
I can feel the message here.