And graces - strained through the wood
What is left - from the time before -
Like the nit - stuck
Under the hat
Maybe the sky is mine
And maybe it
Is yours
Maybe all you cry out
Will die in the night
And maybe we're mortal
After all
Just sunshine burns
To the back of your teeth and through -
Just daylight cracks from
Eyes wrenching eyes wrenching beyond -
Or else just these wings
In gossamer of pollen
Will straighten the clench of your jaw
- or through the mere trick of light
Now sleep in the stick of warm
How can it all add up
If they don't believe in numbers
Just
Working the symbols
They Divine again and again
Between the words they take on
Or
Reducing the fractions
To the nil
And what comes beyond
Nothing can hold
Stars moon sun rain
It only seems like that
Because you
Haven't seen this before
No - last minute heroics
No - sunset when the work day is done
These are the leaves
That would meet you regardless
The decay of what only was won