Someone else

yes,
     even as [              ]
and effigy, like you say   or
stone still, immobile, but hoping for a fracture, just
a fracture, or meeting at a point

(there’s writing on your handtake it in, get over it, get
it over with, let it out
ink it’s just ink but not)

yes,
      even as|
Persephone in the halls