This is the plate
most of the time in the mornings.
Endowment…
Please forgive me.
He was a good ‘ol boy,
a boxer. She,
getting taller…
heads bump.
They weren’t made of stone,
but metal.
This is endowment.
During rehearsal
it still has the same meaning
to her as the man
in the gloves.
Approach and wait.
Upper cut. still.
Pulling back the years.
For it ages
his roadmap gloves.
It is never general though
years ago…
trails off.
seen it in the movies,
when they open the safe.
Check-off.
One. Two. Three. Four…
Pounding- what is not said.
Well, nothing is said.
Even ignoring the audience now.
The ring still stands.
And yet, when she was born,
his family was complete.
M.E.G.
