Another old one, mightily reworked.

Self portrait hanging somewhere

The moments of detail take time to get right.
To catch attention is to hold them by your own hand
for as long as it takes. Sometimes

that's a lifetime, as they read the sway
of a fingernail, your following eyes, or the beat
of your heart in conflicting 6/8 time.
Sometimes, though, it's seconds.

It's these attentions that will
make you, fill you out:

when the moments of detail blur
and curve to imprecision;
when they smooth over doubt.