Gertrude

If you can denude the favorite

girlhood chum portrayed

on the run from diurnal 

pep talks from within

Then I can reach out and rescue

you from your caged onlyness

and plate up gratitude to save us

both from paternity being taken host-

age like old furniture the sitting

down in the mouth half-

baked into harmony as ship-

shaped evanescence to decode

the once filched presumption of a mother

lode lording it over the whole pop-

of complicit lovers of means apart from

the known ways with arms around