Epitaph
By the time the apprentice
reframer gained mastery
the elaborate last design
could not fit through the barn
door while the gurney glided
beyond by all accounts.
As a child the coloring book
lines and borders were thrust
upon the amateur by adults
and neurons and dopamine.
Birthdays arrived with detail
memory, a vice, and right angles,
training for changing parameters.
Peers advised to peer now
and again for confirmation
until a trusted reference cranium
for totem and taboo inhabited.
Experiences and print proposed
to freeze into a frieze each season,
and the seesaw becoming became.