this is the first
of many questions
‘the narrow frightening light,
before a sunrise’
that moving across
California
New York,
Mexico,
we can trace a
politic of revision
choices made while young
– the directions –
given or sought out
in distress, as a
condition
remain
words in a series,
a method
responding to memory
momentary
simple as a struck
cheek, reflexive – the
break’s sharpness
& yet a
steadied hand for
what remained
a decision, for lack of —
the result of silence: a posing
of the second question
“What has been done?”