How much has changed
since Nothing never stayed the same?

Walls; white, waiting walls
for the coming of their fall

never came, but winter did
sure as a thumbnail tack

makes careless holes, monthly holes
to mark the time.

Cornerstones greet new centuries
a sedentary resolve,

not a word to learn, nor a word to say
but no less a statement

of memories, long and gone
fast and forgotten,

tulip-memories of clouds and beams
unspeakable patterns, midair.

The same puddle places, cyclic, remain
after rainy many dreary days.

And sunlit freedom never was so sublime
as alone, with a thought,

for this world, a witness to keep
the erstwhile work that comes complete.

Faces grow long, and then short? again
hair grows out, and then in? again.

And now, I am gone.

03/19/2003

Posted on 04/24/2003
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