Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Morning Ablutions



When the wind isn’t coming, that’s when

it’s up to us to see it through. Make it

marketable. Step for step, held breath,

when pike is put, rail is run, a step is stupid.

A new steepening in expenditure. Sure it is.


I’ve been beaten some by making money.

More by making a living. Still more I’ve been

soundly trounced by the binding tongue of love.

Lifted even as a cookie sheet, though thin

as a bedspread. Stuffed and insufferable.


My dog is good. Means are met, needs made.

Wait. It’s that I’ve grown afraid to say, in saying

something thoughtless, something meaningless.

What about having kids and making ends makes us

mute. What is it about finding ourselves fully


formed that feels so much like a last stop. Forgetting

that movement is all that ever mattered is still a surprise

when it’s remembered. Even today, babe, reassembling.

Even as I am with you. I love you. This is all to say that

history bears repeating. There is no such thing as this building.

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