I’ve been telling a story with leaves and flowers I pressed the life out of. I’ve been telling a story about blue blood, ballerinas, and balls. The story has many climaxes, like a woman with her lover who is with the beat of her heart. My heart is a snare drum, making rickety rock music and frightful calls to war with the past. I don’t allow children to listen to my story and neither should you. How grace bred with elegance until the world, fat with starlight, burst and space filled with shimmering crystals of silence. My heart, a dirty and dangerous little thing, leapt from a shadow into the great knowing.