what if Starshine

what if Starshine

had not closed her eyes

and willed the filament

of possibility

had not chosen

Marianne and yes

but, instead, chose no

and the stillness

of uncertainty,

full of alone,

herself, spinning

back into the prison

of her memories

before Ralph braved

the blizzard

of his soul and sought

her out to bring her

into his solitary searching,

which she dedicated

followed as part of him

and in that stead she found

a space, a could be

possibility

what then? what kind of

possibility?

conjure...or con...

the same

she fought the world

and swallowed hard.