Particular Words in a Specific Order

uncoil, thin prison of itself 
detain through process, metallic music overheard, 
aluminum alarm conspiring spire 
twist dance bent partners, warns the wire, 
and familiarity shaped into tension, until gripped. 
heft trespassing wait till quiet returns 
and performance step, go, rising. 
find footholds in the emptied glitterspace among links 
where sameskin small hands once tunneled through 
each diamond gripping rattles and towards 
the caged dirt brilliance 
(beyond the only wall meant to be climbed). 
chained down to a new sound, a hand too large 
to dig in instincts across, a grid-film for the second's sight, 
the still-there dancing yet to the cagesounds. 
the can't go on unless alone. 
⬦       ⬦       ⬦       ⬦       ⬦ 
the can't go on. 
so struck heart a fresh foil 
thin prison uncoil 
itself, fencing.

2021