Buying, Spending, Gathering
Bringing, Folding, Holding
Washing, Cleaning, Wiping
Laying, Standing, Hunching
Smearing buggers
Taping cuts
Crying, Laughing, Peeing
Building lunches
Packing feelings
Praying, Stretching
​Rehearsing lists

he was a mountain of a man     
women flirted even with
his daughters treading in his shadows       
men looked up but they had to       
he left his words outside     
if the girls looked close enough
​they could find bits and sew them into love

walkin', slip, trip
shuffle by
cues left wayside
movin' through fogs of language
students' faces pull inside strings
"motherfucker"