Tulips

There in the space between where you dance

I see a canyon, you see a bridge.

There in the gap of air, where you sculpt

I walk a gorge, you walk a plateau.

There on the left, then on the right where you weave,

I work in act one and then act two, while you were through intermission.

There at the juncture where you stop stitching

Two one–lips

Become

One two-lips.

Become tulips.

--A description of cleft lip repair, by Bonni Taub, Ph.D.