JOY

by Alysia Harris

... I feared the croak of silence
and felt myself unraveling 
by the rhyme

But I promised my loneliness
that one day
I would write myself
a glass essay
and then I would love like 
it 
can't 
break

I prayed Lord
give me 
good legs
and an open road

Lord 
give me 
a juggernaut heart
and a Japanese car
and benevolent change

And yesterday, 

yesterday
under the honesty of 60 watt light bulbs
and eye worn passages
There
There was my story

Happy endings, superimposed
looking final
and unchallenged

So joy is in the song...

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