Thought I'd missed this anniversary date while in England but had wanted
to send it anyway, but just checked & found out my memory had been a
month out.
[from One-Eye-Saw]
LITTLE ELEGY FOR JR - 21 YEARS ON
walking back alone
after closing time
through the black woods
envious of the stream
the water calling
so entirely to itself
that it drowns out
noise of human traffic
in its urgency
to be elsewhere
stars distanced too
from responsibility
for our little accidents
a living brain kicked in
rare poems-to-be unwritten
Last orders
gentle men please
language paws
in the air
playing dead
twenty-one years of silence
compost a dug promise
AND THE RANSOMED...
...SHALL RETURN
so entirely not themselves
neither knowing nor known
Pete.
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