At Large

(1981)
—for Paul Delvaux

Ran that night & pressed my face up
against the side of the Lakeshore

thinking what?

Memory shining in one thing to the next,

the sleeping car unimaginably smooth
against my cheek
& cool–

Memory so similar to all else
it’s everywhere,

all border

(meaning edge & meaning
endlessly more to go along

From: 
At Large (Excerpt)





Last updated February 21, 2023