Poem for Benicio's Broken Wrist

Dedicated to Alice, my faithfullest reader.

You fell from the top bunk.      The railing gave out.
Two days. We didn't know.      You played Octopus tag.
You jumped off the stone      wall at school.
No one will ever tell you      that you are small. You
are larger than life. We      saw the little fissures, tiny
breaks in your bone. A      million times you fall.
A million times you get       up. Your weight, your gravity
your mass-- you defy      and miraculously and wonderfully
go on.

photo: The artistic Godfather and the patron Saint of Boys Adventure, Mr. Nate painted B's cast. Benicio requested a dragon in battle with a tiger.