Knowing what we have left
behind
Afraid we will forget
--then forgetting
Soon
Then again
And one day reminded
Dearest,
Listen for the wind through the evergreen leaves
for the sound made by distance
between us
September 2004 Archives
And when you shivered stiff
Over your bed, the
Women boiled water, laid
Damp towels over your swollen sets-
I knew you wouldn't last
And each time she left
Emptied the house with threats to never
Come back for the three of us, I
Waited waited and watched, figures
Take shape at the distant end of her main road-
I knew she wouldn't last