„YOUR DEPARTURE

is a hard spoon caught/throat dry hands numb

bad headache/still with longing

no words no tears careful

to comb hair eat scrambled eggs with a dull fork

Take keys/turn on windshield wipers drive slowly

Muted noise/chattering birds fly across your

leaving air

quick brilliance of scotch broom continues

as when you arrived a week ago with wet darting tongue dreamt me awake & more

I want you to stay/you can’t

I watch you drink coffee with cream staring out the window your arriving airplane a silver knife

– not vanishing“