Restoration
one year out from
surgery, the physician
finds pale halos
circling my retinas,
rings of white
keloid scars scoring
where laser carved
tissue, the enhancement
of cornea that I
might better discern
what’s at arm’s length
the cracks & fissures
marking the breaks
in an earthenware calix
fragments joined together
by lacquer, an artery
dusted in gold, see
what was fractured
made more precious
by virtue of its wound
