Mikaela Castledine #106 Today's Self Satisfaction

The things I can do

take the words

weave a straight up disquisition

a tight cloth wefting close

it’s seamless virtually waterproof

each of those crisp little threads

all the way from selvedge to selvedge

with hardly a hole

Or take the words and pretty up a piece

light as an opening in the clouds

spaces between the fibres to fall

finger spinning a poem to sway in

but to bring you up short at the very end

nooses and cats cradles 

you can either catch on

or break your neck with a snap