Delivery Rhyme

For Alyssa As anyone is apt to, you began as someone else’s symptom. As in other beginnings: drawn lots, blood, some dancing on the heads of pins and inside needles’ eyes, cellular revelry, hopping of microscopic turnstiles. Lucky guest, grist, leapt long odds to spark the tinder in the dark. Then, the subcommittees met: made merry in duplicate, triplicate and so on, much of themselves, divided and divined and concurred. All sides insides, pre-ambulatory perambulation meant: sure ambit, short orbit in a warm aquarium set to the muffled music of a single sphere. As in other beginnings: parting seas, the future’s violent egress, screams and sutures, aftermath’s average agony on umbilical belay but soon to solo, unfold all those origami limbs to test the inevitable debutante bawl. Wrest from the nest and the rest is you, dear: dressed for the bright lights in bits of my sister.