regarding no thing in particular
but with a melancholy air
and noticing he couldn't see me — or didn't
i sketched him
beneath a heavy brow, which he couldn't fully know
some light.

we bid adieu
it is not a new story, but one told through this voice, this time. . . the voice that strives to hear itself in truest form. . . it is an exercise in muscle, a peeling and a prying away, a pushing through and a purpose of being.