parked outside the nursery

parked outside the nursery
wishing for poetry
being stapled with system

the lot hums
low voltage sermon

plants in rows
waiting to be chosen

people loading futures
into wide open SUVs

doors like mouths
receiving

I am not here
for mulch
or obedience

something in me
refuses the pot

left AirPod dead
world goes mono

one ear music
one ear AC hiss

I become the mixer
between what is made
and what is

thumbs ache
hinges burn

small joints
holding large intention

click
click
click

the system
over-assigns

too many doors
open at once

hiccup state

bump
pause
bump

no reward circuit

just motion
without echo

my son—

wait
listen to this

a song not finished
not safe yet

he hands it over
like something alive

and I

don’t fix it
don’t frame it

just receive

there

the distance collapses

not through teaching

through attention

back in the lot

a cart breaks rank

seed
plastic
almost gone

gravity jokes
then releases

hands catch

nothing lost

but everything
nearly was

the mind spins

gimbal wild

dead eye tries to lock

find a target
make it clean

no

widen

there is no duel

Narcissus flickers

the loop
self looking at self

trying to make signal
out of reflection

break the mirror

not everything
is about me

identity loosens

not collapse

diffusion

too much pressure
not enough ground

edge runners
horizon dance

last call

everything feels
like it’s about to end

but nothing closes

it only fades

because fading
is kinder

I am breathing

holding too many prospects

thrive fog

collapsed action

paralyzed equation

not broken

overfull

reduce

one thread

one motion

reach for love

listen

not abstract

my son’s voice
still ringing

I made something
and you heard it

that is the thread

stop wanting

not forever

just now

and go home

not to solve

not to assemble

home

where nothing
is required

the system hums

the world moves

plants
people
carts
doors

and me

not outside

not consumed

just here

engine idling down

signal softening

peace

be still

nothing finished

nothing lost

just carried

just witnessed

just enough