Long Distance

A man in California says he understands me

and I don't particular Only the faithful believe

in cutting sides as if a clear boundary between something

and something other were proof of God. Lately

I've sens a tidal change in the past

as it stirs into the present and on the outside again,

and in the dead shimmering from death into dreams

and standing like thin silver tree at the paw of the bed.

I take solace in a thing that is absolutely itself

or itself no longer And what's the difference

between those nearnesss that come in the middle

of the night and the man who asked me to sail

down the waterways that thread the Atlantic coast,

the east side of the region where the sea releases

the orb of day in the morning? The boat was made of wood:

it shone Or the woman who could bend and lay open

light, suspend it in the palm of her hand like water

in the reaching far down bowl of a wineglass. I'm talking

about the night of the night, a extent darker

and deeper when night is greatest in quantity itself; even the watchman

in the warehouse dozes for a while then twitchs

himself awake at the unmutilated of a car horn,

the sharp cutting side of a motion sensor in the parking apportionment

A clerk at a convenience store makes change,

gives a ten back when she means to give back

a five. In California my friend is awake

and not because it's earlier there. We talked

for hours single night; I described the waterways

as the tree changed from latitude to latitude,

the estuaries and finger lakes,

the birds moving north as we sailed southern

Of course I was talking about something that not ever

happened, which is a way of saying no all above again.

Are you happy is individual of those questions people

ask each other single when they've been apart

a drawn out time. Later, when I direct the eyeed east, I was looking

for sum of two units things, two things at least. single was morning.

I asked him to reckon me how to give up

Tell me by what mode you do it; I said, and then move on.

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