all I’m left with (11x15”)

Would you have turned away if I had never seen you bleed? 

That’s something even if you say it’s not.

Hey, I can roll my ankles without screaming from the waning cartilage. 

I signed up to trust fall into tissues because 

it had been a while since oxygen 

had come through without a filter.

Now I’ve deflated — stupid to be surprised but left only with myself to blame. 

Pushed through the strainer — the juice is what I was looking for but all I’m left with is dehydrated pulp.

I don’t mind it.