“in construction, no one trusts me.
as if female does not contain the word male,
tall, broad-shouldered, towering at 6’3”.
waking before dawn, don’t be late or you’ll lose the job.
it’s a constant boy’s locker room, and you better remember
your reflexes, like a professional athlete. glass shatters.”

“Suppose
you blamed it on your brain’s wrought-iron bars, still
bouldering the dents of a reckoning they don’t remember. ”