I can smile find ease

almost forget where my hands land to what my mind wanders from where my feet have returned

I understand these pleasures they are old friends I’ve walked beside for those 10,000 hours they and me

becoming the us this way

yet there is a place too no smiles yet all the same with furrowed brow a delight hard won

a grander space dare I say a grander me

of course not recognized in the moment of furrowed brow

concentration consternation

yet wings there unfurling behind the hammer swung high in reformation