Intellimation
Cynthia Arrieu-King

Deduction, poisons, salt in water, eclipse, yoyo.

On these concepts, my youth worked like a grave

Whose six feet of nothing framed, framed

Facts I then loved, and that was okiedokie.

Now, I have loved more, and that's tolerable.

I had saved, and those collages are gone.

An instinct of reading up on how berries survive

and twigs alone beat figures on wind

of how to be prepared helped calm me

for the helpful spoon I was supposed to have been.

O, drinkable blue the sky that swung back then.

The thought of failure lies on a soft cushion.

A race across pavement towards a wrong

swerves from doing what must be done.