+The pendulum swings yet again back and forth
+as I ask you the millionth time and one more
+if you still love me, still tolerate
+my existence, are sure towards me
+you hold no sliver of anger or hate.
+Because we've made these vows so many more times,
+but I'm forbidden by my anxiety
+from failing to plan for any contingencies.
+Like I'm my father now,
+I myself with questions hound:
+"Well, now you're twenty-two,
+and I don't want to seem like I'm forcing you
+to come along with me."
+
+Angel numbers meet at midnight's bend.
+"For you, you'll never see me again."
+But Jett, does it work the other way?
+If I ask you to, will you forever stay?
+Will you swear yourself in health and sickness to my lonely side?
+Will you in this new world I am creating reside?
+
+Because, you should know,
+if you willed it,
+I would gladly disappear.
+
+Go, if you must,
+without fear.
+I will be here
+at the end of every day
+to reclaim
+that which was only ever mine.
+
+]]>
+
+
+
+
Under My Fingernails
@@ -188,72 +233,6 @@ against an ashen gray sky,
in the first blooms and blossoms
of my garden in birthing spring:
if it was good and beautiful, I saw you in everything.
-
- ]]>
-
-
-
-
- Tissue Sample
-
- https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/t/tissue.txt
- 2022-05-19
-
-
-How do I come to terms
-with the fact that I will die?
-How do I look my mother in the eyes
-and say, "You won't have me
-for that much more time?"
-
-I look in your eyes,
-and I see a flame
-that burns so bright,
-that signals something
-arriving
-just over the horizon.
-
-I expected to be dying by now,
-strength fleeing from my limbs,
-lungs crushed by anxiety
-like the world itself was closing in.
-I got all my homework done early
-in February
-even though graduation was three
-months away, not knowing
-what state I would be in,
-six months from onset
-being the low end.
-But except for the sores that pulse
-in movement's fury and sleeptime's lull,
-I'm just as healthy as ever.
-
-I'm searching my body for every possible sign
-that the end is coming, that looms my demise.
-And I am in pain, I will admit,
-but not nearly enough to classify myself as sick.
-I'm in a science classroom, with scalpel prodding myself.
-Clean up the experiment, jar me up, return me to the shelf
-in tanager's formaldehyde, amber sleep, sanctioned suicide.
-You haven't really died until you've returned to the earth,
-I think, given back the dust in your bones
-to this planet that insists it be your home.
-You haven't really disappeared
-until your body has dispersed so much
-that nobody can point at the ground and say,
-"The person I love now rests here."
-
-This vessel, I hope, will not be preserved
-in a morgue, under a man's care, final horror.
-My body was never ever really mine
-in this life.
-Mother still sometimes cries
-that I'm not a doll anymore,
-won't wear dresses anymore.
-Will she keep me around when my body moves nevermore,
-preserved, plasticized,
-mannequin most lifelike?
-Deny me Velouria's embrace one last time?
diff --git a/poetry/r/reynar.txt b/poetry/r/reynar.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..174bf9d
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+++ b/poetry/r/reynar.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Reynar
+2022-05-26
+
+***
+
+The pendulum swings yet again back and forth
+as I ask you the millionth time and one more
+if you still love me, still tolerate
+my existence, are sure towards me
+you hold no sliver of anger or hate.
+Because we've made these vows so many more times,
+but I'm forbidden by my anxiety
+from failing to plan for any contingencies.
+Like I'm my father now,
+I myself with questions hound:
+"Well, now you're twenty-two,
+and I don't want to seem like I'm forcing you
+to come along with me."
+
+Angel numbers meet at midnight's bend.
+"For you, you'll never see me again."
+But Jett, does it work the other way?
+If I ask you to, will you forever stay?
+Will you swear yourself in health and sickness to my lonely side?
+Will you in this new world I am creating reside?
+
+Because, you should know,
+if you willed it,
+I would gladly disappear.
+
+Go, if you must,
+without fear.
+I will be here
+at the end of every day
+to reclaim
+that which was only ever mine.
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander