transfigural

As we met, caked-on
wet flaws thickly flaked
and fell from us while
we smiled for miles,
not the least embarrassed
by the growing piles
of sloughed-off facade
surrounding where we stood,
enrapt. While deeper in,

Our faults uncracked
and found new fit,
and filled with light
and this
was consummately odd.

As unexpected as
it gets. We laughed
to find ourselves
impressed. Not just
by what had come across,
but all that rose in us
to grin and nod.