Wednesday, February 9, 2011

No Architecture Can Forget / new poems 2010

The Dust In Our Hearts

we slip away
from one another

out an open window

through a door ajar

our footprints
are erased by weather

over an open field

under a sky aloft

and we are left with
rain on our faces
sun in our eyes
wind in our heads

to wander crooked streets, unmarked paths
hoping gravity will take leave of our feet
to realize dreams of flight
and our fancy to go home again
knowing all to well in our waking state
that we are bound to walk alone
these failing, furtive memory lanes
where our ghosts remain, remind,
remember the way it really was
not the way we wish

well before we slip away
from one another

long after our footprints
are erased by weather

leaving only
rain on our faces
sun in our eyes
wind in our heads

the dust in our hearts
slipping through our hands

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