couplet – Graceful Press Poetry

yes outlet

hatch this ink-run, butterfly plan—
test the limits of your inner shape

that time we time-machined it
found hope-lack, forward and back

drawn onward, grit and press (what
could we gain in the rewriting?)

I resolved (again) to let it go—yet
she sat down to dine in her dotted nightgown

Playing with couplets for the January poetry slam.