2.
that’s why we chose
to be in body in the first place
or be in her
in
grace of union,
and no word said,
I
am the hum of whom
she has chosen,
small trout
busy in her stream,
broken kayaks litter her backyard,
capisce?
I didn’t, I thought he wrote capsize
and laughed,
he
slugged me
the way they do, men,
and
I was only ten
or something, who knows
how old anybody really is.
