this search
for a word--
the word
of
looking
gilt
in its face,
or that
of fashioning
guilt
into some sort of
mirror.
i've cracked
in a space
delimned
by waiting
and shards
have fallen
to a pavement,
they refract
light, like
sun on lips,
and the light
shines up over
my face--
almost as if
i can feel
its glimmer,
the image
of
guilt
is my image
and my image
silvers
gilt's
visage.