Every Morning, Before the Break

Watercolor by Leo Gordon


every morning, before the break

every morning, before the break
of dawn, after he gets up or she
gets up to use the toilet and returns,
they refresh each other like math
rounding to the nearest integer
legs, into one
arms, into two
then multiply each sleeping
heartbeat within the safety
of matrices, adding and
subtracting each other until
they are lulled back
into hushed reciprocals
.

Yi-Ching Lin

Posted over on her site Yi's Bits on "Healthy Doses"