Sunday, November 29, 2020

I take myself down to a beginning



Many things are older than me, I know

many things more mature, mellow

yet someone tells me write

so I say thank you 


with a part of the pencil I use for writing 

myself, highlighting--I always forget 

to use the part for erasing--

my eyes, my loudness


for all those babies even now in cages

the leaving parents the babies 

who take care of babies 

babies given away


grief on grief--I am unready, each one 

already too much.  With long arms

I sweep the water's flow

over and over



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