For Now.

It's finished

for now

spaced, and ordered

justified.

They're only words

for now

but soon they'll breathe and walk

and speak out loud.

Fiction,

sure

but I like to think there's something more

than my imaginings

printed here

on this pile of papers.

I have taken your voice

and a confession from behind a curtain

a face from here and there

names that belong

to people who don't yet know

that they are now implicated in this

drama.

I, for once,

am nowhere to be found

though perhaps lurking in the margins

whispering

watching

waiting

for now.

This package of other peoples limbs

thoughts

names

words

covertly collected

I, Frankenstein,

this my monster

a Promethean thief

I remain unreprimanded

I've got away with it

for now.