an au revoir here penned, man on a cliff doing a spring, fall over cleaning
a few rusty drafts still needy for completely but you know times up when tide rushing out and on your leg is a big red rash that wasn’t there when you waded in a few minutes earlier
tastes changes, like seasonal entrees on a restaurant menu, seasons come and go, reappearing, but last years dish, out of style, except for the occasional recalling
the body and the work must together concert, poetry like a lifetime of lovers, you leave them behind for loving them too well, using up the verses left inside, then comes the time when love dries up and the words concomitant
the nighttime scraps will still be kept in that sewing box, that storage space rented on a 99 year lease but now for my eyes lonely only, this nub is stubbed, this last one, at last, succinct