this I will remember too
to ask for return
how unkind
when being broken into
to object
and how rude it was
this I do remember
behind with my cousin
two sweet parakeets
my
we’d be leaving
the gentle explaining
again
a flight number
I have to memorize
body a second
back into my three-year-old
slap me
Lord
backwards ocean the ‘cross then
‘cross the ocean again
a caustic latitude
antibodying
Lord
the marrow
mouth almost is still was
someone else’s
bless
to stifle the tide
name stillwater the
problem of me
bless
nowhere skin Lord
my everywhere, quilted