VESSEL

Don’t recognize these bulging mams
             Like sacks of stones
Weighing down my options

Lamenting cows
Leaking down this
             Introverted cavern
Inflated on stilts of sand
                           Shifting
Between awkwardness
and pride

Like a releasing corset
             Ribs             expanding
Breath challenged

             Pain
Stretched gracefully as silk sheets

A drum
For your beats