a kiss floats
over the competition
like the seed
of the cottonwood
collecting in the grasp
of a synapse dancing
strategy is not
the x's and o's
on the chalkboard
strategy is the power
to know you can make
something happen
it is a belief that i
can make your
x's and o's
fall into my arms
that i am a premise
you are an endeavor
and we
are going to intersect
where brain cells spin
like dizzy ballerinas
in tutus made from the float
of a cottonwood seed
and all the little icons
scribbled on a slate
will be your idea