They
soon will arrive, knock, on the bluestone slab
utter dropping - signs of excitement
thumping, groping, hidden
blackbirds in mating seasons
stained cranes that had burned into atomic
the whole lot in the fey rain
in the ash, fake
years, eleven exactly, there I was conceived
Saturn had done the gorging, Medea the sub
zeroing in, the falling
of whole house, Kabuki eruptions, knowledge,
namings, christenings, rites of wronging
the other, dedications, mementos as if
nothing had really
