6.24.2022

even now, shall I choose? Do I get to?

Had the light 
changed, possibly—or, 
 
differently, was that how I'd 
seen it 
 
            always, and not 
looking? Was I meant for 
 
a vessel? Did I only 
believe so and, 
 
so, for a time, was it true but 
 
only in that space which belief makes 
for its own wanting? 
 
What am I going to 
do with you 
                        —Who just 
 
said that? 
 
Whose the body—where—that voice 
belongs to? 
 
                        Might I turn, 
toward it, whinny 
into it? 
 
            My life 
            a water, 
 
            or a cure for 
            that which no water 
            can cure? 
 
            His chest 
            a forest, or a lush 
            failure—
 
Even now, shall I choose? Do I 
get to? 
 
Dearest-once-to-me 
 
                        Dearest-still-to-me 
 
Have I chosen 
already, 
 
            or is choice a thing 
hovering yet, an 
 
intention therefore, from 
which, though 
late, could I hurry back? 
 
What am I going to do with you—    or
 
how? 
Whom for? 
 
                    If stay my hand—where 
     
                rest it? 
 

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