Poem the wife is working on
Observation—
I should be dead by now
(three times over)
but late afternoon persists
and I persist in it
carrying what cannot change
living full as full allows
in a body that is estate and fruit and constant light
and the only experiment that matters:
still breathing here.
I should be dead by now
(three times over)
but late afternoon persists
and I persist in it
carrying what cannot change
living full as full allows
in a body that is estate and fruit and constant light
and the only experiment that matters:
still breathing here.

