From stifling coolness
within a parking garage,
from the graphite transfer sound
of a freight elevator shifting floors,
from the deliberate stride
of his black work boots—echo
his escape, his eyes,
three lines.
He motions the wall to tumble,
telephone wires to tense outside
a window, a barricade
withdrawn. He can no longer conceal,
wills stasis to crumble
into being, the outsized beauty
of his surround
crates toward a red bird sky.