I think we forgot Or I think there was an occurrence A time that the door swung open Where it slipped, almost quietly out Fell up into the night For others, perhaps Or for nothing
Or maybe Between those days, streets, dinners Those afternoons thieved behind closed curtains Between the hands and the highs and the denials In those lulls of mind, or lacunas of the trials We forgot to look Unrepentantly inattentive And like a naughty child Like yesterday's confetti to a stormΒ Β It fled And we, Indispensably inattentive Rolled forward Smooth wheels on rough ground But maybe it didn't Didn't flee after all And we merely Rolled forward Rolled towards
Do I scream from the windows? Or replant, in the same plant ***? Do I pound my thighs along lanes after it With all that naughtiness Of the troubled child? I wonder if this is the sentence For the crime of easy reliance I wonder if belated repentance Can push palms into the past I wonder if tomorrow Changes's hurricane arrives