Love Loves
We’ve traveled to a field with its inner
servings of sand and wolves. The sand is owned and never
appears on a map because the owners want its hard
tender invisible. The space trembles and is built up and seems
eliminated. It has come to rest and I am in a hurry
to listen. Nothing might be more
fragile than smearing infinity around
and waiting dutiful centuries. Sun hovers
every high and low, posing and pointing as necessity.
Eros I once believed could make me
an incredible promise. Sincere, I took it. Of course I
also learned no love
loves a stain. In confidence, we discussed it. Previously. We hid
unattended until finally our settlement of us
decided to stay. To clarify, to celebrate we canopy
in the desert where the sun singing sand on a loop
becomes sensemaking. We are dirty and casual,
the day getting rich quick
on distance. Making a note
about a note and whatever
he says, whatever I forgot to unknot, I tend
to sift through the waning
light. It’s another summer bending; it is nearly thirty
years. There’s a room here for washing
one’s feet. I don’t know if you need to be clean.
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