all the other steps

what if we could
go backwards
through time.
let's say we could.

all the steps we took
the clunks
and jerky

unsure

movements we made.
all the final runs we ran and jumps

we thought through

then lept into.

all those places we went on our own two feet.
or


did we
?

but now the ungraceful has
been redeemed
the moves and
nervous trips
have come to pass as

glides

down the school hallway in elementary
and it is.

for when we go backwards through time
we come to where we are.