I gently praise the private process,
prized and ever present:
that deeply drumming, flawless
pulse, enlivening all reticent
skin,
that delicate bloom of trust,
unfolding in the jessamine
light of stardusted
approval,
that calm conflagration,
hastening the removal
of presumption, embarrassment,
and priggishness.
I gently praise the private process,
prized and ever present.