Breathmark

If

you pause

I can catch

up not release

and ponder

content

not

contentedly perhaps

yet perhaps absorb

what you have 

guarded from

speaking

thinking

feeling espousing

that I might

weigh in sign

in broadcast

induced

agreement

with thought

barely configured barely

know I might

wind up

listed

somewhere

as you

let out space

between wordlings presumed

to contain

ideas

bereft 

of corresponding

evidence in flesh

I listen and

wait for

quiet

laughing

to and

at myself for

any inadvertent mirroring

of what

I

chastise 

by reflex

and without reflection