The Cedarville Review 2018

POETRY AND VISUAL ART 35 You screech and vault as you strategize structures, construct hinges, And fill holes with grease to avoid oxidation caused by precipitation. Breaks can be welded and illness reprogrammed. And yet You will never know pain or confusion or the smell of spring giving way to summer. You will carry on indifferent to the depravity and beauty around you while I fall and rise with each severed friendship and sprung fiddlehead.