Shards Of The Same Boy

father shatters the mirror to show the lad again father
father rememorates the glass no man can name father

father shrouds the belt wreathed beneath the bad father
father respires the night of iron & prayer unsaid father

father raises the wall & feels his hands shake father
father hammers quietude where no words break father

father coaches hellish hunger as its own benison father
father genuflects to gashes that brand itself lesson father

father trains the seed in the art of withholding father
father engraves tears inside their own holding father

father deserts the chair yet summons shape father
father fleshes out shadow to find his escape father

father beholds the boy run barefoot through his eyes father
father bleeds the bloody being who still strives to rise father

father obliterates haven that once was warm father
father echoes the echo that thrives to form father

father baptizes himself anchor & blade father
father fires up the end where he stayed father

father purrs the grave like incarcerated toy father
father remains father who remains the boy father

father hannan susurrates the silence into storm father
father turns to stripling who ventures to transform father