On broken frequencies
Like a shell-less snail or the shell’s emptiness
is the man who stands. Yesterday, sleep walking
the garden’s noon perimeter, he stooped to fork in straw.
Preparing for something.
He knows this much - earth tells its own story,
though what it says through rucks of weeds,
means little to him: the words of seasons past;
those once sweet easy messages of time and rain.
All he makes daily now, this man wandering in your shirt
and trousers, is steps. Listening on broken frequencies
for the voice of his lost expertise, crackling in, deserting.
is the man who stands. Yesterday, sleep walking
the garden’s noon perimeter, he stooped to fork in straw.
Preparing for something.
He knows this much - earth tells its own story,
though what it says through rucks of weeds,
means little to him: the words of seasons past;
those once sweet easy messages of time and rain.
All he makes daily now, this man wandering in your shirt
and trousers, is steps. Listening on broken frequencies
for the voice of his lost expertise, crackling in, deserting.
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