I walk through walls of advice, run into either/or questions I look for your face, your hands, all I find are more questions We sit in circles, toss the stories lightly like potatoes Grass stains, wet feet, and the core questions Some of us are small like a poem, a pot of soup Some of us are wrestling the peace and war questions We march the avenues, decade by decade the parades Ancestors make it look easy. Grandchildren roar questions Here, my little pantry. Box of rhymes, jar of honesty Here, inside rotting rubber bands - here I store questions Because the roads were blocked we had a party in our minds The guests wore sunshine. The groom wore songs. The bride wore questions The wished-for child dances at night to an unwritten tune I shiver. It’s late. And we wait for your questions
the coats of all seasons will drop from our shoulders and we will become houses for the wind target practice for the ice arrows we have not learned tomorrow’s one, two we have not learned the wilding song we have not learned the grief words we have not learned the new highroads they were not made for us we are only in the way but we will learn the small trail we will drink from the lost alphabet we will climb the hidden map the mirrors will melt and we will find a path for our feet, a sky for our faces a thump for our hearts rising from their sleep dance the clocks will shatter and we will hear the rope of the hours, the pulse of the days