Around Their Bodies
for Tim Yu

was a decision
the proof turns out
as one might suspect,
some kind of lure
unduly alive
(“too good to pass up”)
the opposite of
(each its)
self-spur-
ring inert defeat

“responding appropriately”:
“the hard thing about” the incubation
period . the waiting room:
windows “frame,” weeds “grow”

“of course we are concerned” –
he might accuse
the falsity of the implication of
motive: nothing fits the description,
the speaker supposes
some particular something:

straight face down
ten times fast
suddenly there’s a
stain here.