February 7, Family Game

1. Spend your childhood avoiding your parents.
2. Realize they were the ones avoiding you.
3. Carve your name into a tree.
4. Marry the first person
who suggests cutting that tree down.
5. Write a song.
6. Sing a mountain.
7. Dance a city forever caught
in the light of a sunrise.
8. Spend a week on your back
whispering the many names
you wish to be called.
9. Get a shower.
10. Step through the walls,
and disappear.