• a point
• in time
• in space
• where I am just beginning to fix myself
• the infinite selves coalescing into one mental form
• you can see the hints
• of repair
• skeletal drydocks of mental battleships
• queer kids learning to exist
• in a world that isn’t as openly hostile

//

• but the fight doesn’t end
• winter break approaches and with it a world of combat
• the urge to survive
• stronger than any other
• retreating into a broken mental shell built over the years
• a house
• with shaky foundations

//

• the weather returns
• before renovation is complete
• clapboard walls thrown up and reinforced with bad habits