Duran Mazzana

One Pass Through

Diagonal blinds,

sun aims for the bench,

not me.

Margins offer sight, 

dwelling on Bourgainvilleas.

Their periodic nature of willfulness

refuses a clean-up.

I stack my one pass through

against its one of tons—

its lines’ continuum,

grants it surprise to everyone.

I can get jolted 

from what’s to come,

and boredom can come,

and fortune can come,

and wisdom can come,

with prisms that numb—

and that’ll be it,

done and done.