Subtlety

It travels up you like a shimmering of fog.

It covers

what it can of you,

it hides you from some

aspects of the man of you –

it softens how the world

feels on your skin –

it keeps varieties of questions

you had almost asked within –

and yet, despite its ministrations, you’re agog:

entirely

beyond

all doubt,

looking,

wide-eyed,

out.








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