Kintsugi Eggshells

Mercury Enters Gemini Poem

The daughter who learned to tiptoe barefoot around eggshells
left the house with all her baggage and keeps forgetting to buy shoes.
I think it doesn't matter until I drop a ceramic mug, in my home,
which I bought, with my money, with my partner, and wait for the yelling to start.
Deer in headlights, frozen on tile, tachycardic bloodstream, 
I swear ther…