It explains so much
when you turn, tense,
and speak of the past:
roads were hard to choose,
everything so made of concrete,
hard to breathe, so difficult to read.
Of course, of course:
people were so quick to declaim
against, hard to see, so inflexible,
everyone is too quick.
That was the past:
you admit it, shoulders and mouth
tense, and I will add, turning away,
what is the present.
What is … :
oh, I am so quick.
In the after
math of differential
events
equations of beginning
past tense and present
structural sentiments
to keep the language breathing
thin letters, strung on thinner
phonic wires:
integrity
hope
and
(always and)
a sense of you
float the space
between before
and begun–
a risk
worth making