I
One site in the alphabet
needs mending.
What might be provender
releases its unlike
twin: hourglass
overturned.
Corybantic silence
unravels the echoes stitch
by stitch to make such shroud
then wear it. As in the gait,
cloaked, "of a man forever in fear of falling"
so as to see to
the restoration of that letter.
Elizabeth Robinson