Meaning

I may be unusual 

by the measures that you

bring to the table of friendship 

but I’m not disingenuous 

my truth sprays out from the fountain 

like hot water 

from your favorite shower head 

probably the massaging and luxurious kind

that you find in those swanky hotels 

and unlike some 

my mouth isn’t filled with platitudes 

like a rocks glass crowded with ice

I lay out words as layered with meaning

as the mille-feuille on the dessert table

but I mean every leaf, every shade 

that I have riveted together

and brought 

to your attention.