Addition

As in enlarging or expanding,
as in piecing together

He sits at the brand-new kitchen table
in dwindling light, a flat screen before him

erasing what was
to make something new

adolescent fingers tapping the keyboard,
summoning scaffolds of symbols and signs

concrete then rubble,
foundation then floor

as in growth, as in cells
pulled out of thin air

as in two feet becoming
four, eating up the yard

rough drafts of muscle
supporting the bone

on the blueprints there was no
yard, only lines

the face already leaner, nearly
unrecognizable

only white space
where a yard would be

the legs longer, faster
for walking away

the wraparound porch
like a formal embrace:

Look what I’ve done, he says
beaming, and I look

 as in gain, not loss

then he stands and goes,
leaving me to sit

 not loss, not loss

in this gleaming expanse,
this now finished space

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