during the 2006 world cup I spent a day in jail

ever since
	I was a boy
these details were

often overlooked
         intimate years
in rearview becoming

effervescent popcorn
	bursting pubescent
calcifying twine

an awkward adolescence
	heat-marked scars
chaffed palms

lead the procession
	spine uneven
to the wolf’s bosom

is she abrasive
	through desire
on our day of reckoning

interrogated lines
	in freefall
under primrose skies

distant confessions
	between stone-cold walls
resemble absolution

here
         the impenetrable light
in the city

when the night softens
	I am forgiven
and we are set free