All the rigor and weight
held between mandible and maxilla.
Listing the undone,
not omissions
but cratering demands,
admiring the width and breadth,
the echelons echoing
efforting to refine
attainment of paragon;
realign.
Naming myself
as one fake and fallen,
fearful and grasping,
and receiving
a stamp
'beloved'
a seal
'called'
a slate
'clean'.
