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one of them bought
a watch
so the other one
bought a watch

I love the friends we’ve gathered here tonight
to walk with waters and ancient martyrs, to stalk
the lost grass, to kiss the frost in the night.

I bought in Oxford, England,
paper cup, plastic cup,
sprinkled with Demerara sugar,
why do I remember it
as the best in my life?

this is what Eternity’s
doing, too

I am no longer bruised,
battered infant wanting
not to be born yet thrust
in and out, in and out
by persistent contractions for three days

you soon learned
that everything is added on,
just one thing after another,
the privacy or water and
the exhibitionism of rain

Did she batten on the dawn,
feed geese coming across the lawn,
touch the raveled work
on which heroes and battles
were limned?

“Did you see what time it was?”

If we are all leaving,
we should leave

The statue seems merely resigned to mutilation
and exaggeration, but the longer I watch my grandson drawing
and hear the old gentleman laughing beside us,
the two of them seem the flip sides of the same old coin.