nectarine

prayer to the god of infinite creative possibilities (poem)

Oh please let me touch
Every inch of this day

I’m halfway through inking a sketch
dreaming of speaking fluent French

The future vibrates with
all the poems I’ll never write
and all the instruments I’ll never play

I must break my curiosity
into pieces small enough
for my hands

Let me hold something
in my palm

and not the ghostly weight
of what’s left undone