Letter to Miryam

Day 196.Random Notes from my phone (after Catherine and Potemkin)

Reading time: about two minutes

The prophets say I treat this one differently:

with reverence, emerging from my amber cave of deaf suffering,

a pairing accepted as if we had been, long expected;

Yet from my left pinky to my right hook toe,

today I issued a fatwa evacuating my affection.

My stone heart needs no lock and key, 

too hardened and misplaced in my ch…