Practice a refusal you could only hollow with tears.
Admiration beyond the polite hemisphere.
You walk electrically beside me in a library.
Unspoken messages cannot be silenced.
Practice not feeding the perishable
or the unreal, repairing council, console, policy,
particle, partner.
Practice what will never be realized for so many bodily
reasons coinciding with eyes.
Waking to your words, predawn, before the frozen
can recall any imperfection in your imagined form.