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(The essay on modesty) (in application for) (bodily autonomy)

          (She lost that case) (on (wide is the gate))  (rhetorically memorable)

                        (Arbiter rise)

(Attracted to) (the most minor) (advantages) (adopting gendered props)

          (Assaying willingness)                       (I notice a certain scarlet letter)

(Dream of a house) (it can’t be mine) (vast roominess)

                        (Dream of a beach) (but it’s a beach with a                 problem)

          (In the smug of your (natural woman))               (I have had (a stain) (a conceit))

                                    (Despite appearances (allegedly))

          (A medical person) (declares the injury a                                     non-emergency)

(The essay on modesty), Krystal Languell

And isn’t everything risk?

The beloved lives 
Then dies,
Then (if we’re lucky) 
Rises again 
Into a poem or song

Or into the world 
In some other form 
Impossible to predict.

Simplest story, oldest tale: 

Sparrows sing it
From every hedge;

And swallows, also, 
From their nests on the ledge. 

[And isn’t everything risk?], Gregory Orr