Losing Our Marbles
(for S.M.)

Mibular*
Clicking and
Spherical
Dreaming. In
Vivo, In
Vitro: sand.

Gyroscope
Whirring and
Lyrical
Throwing in.
Knowing the
Secret

And we spin just like tops on our points of desire,
And we melt just like glass newly-drawn from the fire.

Tremble, blush and mumble --
Tongues once glib now stumble.

Like two school girls we stare and stop
To see whose dress is first to drop.


* Mibular – having to do with marbles