How the light is sad.
Hoe it will not leave us alone.
How we are tugged up staircases
by the way it angles across landings.
Or just our faces— tipped
to the clear, depleted sky.
How because of sunset, the imagination
headquarters in the west.
Spring in the north: all that
tawny grass and gravel and nothing
green to sop up the excessive honesty.
Outside our windows,
something like youth or promises.
How the wind blows right through them,
blossoming. Fleet.
~ from Songs For Relinquishing The Earth (Brick Books, 1992)
