on mark

lost my attention.

you or i?

did or do?

what is marriage

without memory

what is promise

without a canary

to learn consequence

to accept angels

if you wish to move for more

than just plastic pebbles

represented in local stores



let me translate that:



i lost my attention to you,

or did you lose my attention?

non-sequiters are like flirting

with forgiveness-by-forgetting

and promises are like coal mines

prone to collapse

to learn the difference between

real love and apparent love

keep your eye on their currency



translation:



a disordered attention

bound up in knots of forgiveness

with roots in the shadow’s memory

& a distrust in promises

finds love in hard truths

& an eye for a man’s currency



again:



to forgive

a human angel

for their humanity

keep your eye

on its mark