Rehearsal
1
The blue threads say
we were here once
Once say springtime
& bourbon--
Plus
early worry settles
how the story ends
Every story ends...
Say tested a passage
point A to point B
Say where, say here
2
We began with ideas,
husbandry, its seed
taking hold--
Man’s
hankering in perfume,
the tree by its ring…
You know how herds
cross the river calm,
partial, incomplete
Before you’re born,
remember
Exactly
one says, is our death
3
I won’t ever say it
right, but I’ll begin
Our rest consumes,
ferries time--
Say
Bodiless, that family
Model Ts, wagons,
horses up ‘til then--
Land bridge & feet
My family slipping
like mileposts away
Rolling head, family