Reset Forty-Nine, Day Two Hundred Five

[rejectomorph]

Slept most of the day, I think, and ate a big dinner late, and now have to sleep more. Just not feeling especially not bad. Maybe better later. But first this:



Sunday Verse

How I Come to You

by Molly Peacock


Even a rock
has insides.
Smash one and see
how the shock

reveals the rough
dismantled gut
of a thing once dense.
Making the cut

into yourself,
maybe you hoped
for rock solid through.
That hope I hoped,

too. Dashed
on my rocks was my wish
of what I was. Angry,
dense and mulish,

I smashed myself and found my heart
a cave, ready to be
lived in. A start,

veined, unmined.
This is how I come to you:
broken,
not what I knew.