Breaking Free

Living at maximum RPM,

the world outside surrounds me

Setting traps and digging holes

to slow my motion down

 

I bob and weave, increasing speed,

the pitfalls deep and mighty

Hunted for the threat I pose

—their treadmills overwound

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: July, 2021)

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