and that is why, she says, to absolutely no one at all
i am selling the bed and throwing out the dishes
and the traces of our dinners and mouths and spices and laughter all shoved
down with bad jokes and forever secrets into a box
into a box i now leave
on the sidewalk marked
FREE
in giant black letters, because yes,
the moving marker is in my hand
and the past is splayed wide open
for anyone who walks by
for anyone who walks by
and happens to want a piece
and this is why i watch
as the every-day-at-this-same-time-again woman
takes 2 plates, a green-rimmed bowl, a few tattered books
before the dawn
why thank you i say around the pushed-back curtain
thank you and good bye
to worn out boots in the snow
to the silence before the coming train
to those meals and the first winter and the dark, bald branches like hunger
clamoring through the sky
clamoring through the sky
and to the rush of the charles
blue-black-slapping
frozen wild
to the tempoof thank you, she's marked FREE,
on the sidewalk
the story's there.
--- 2003/2012
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