that’s why we chose

to be in body in the first place

or be in her

                             in
grace of union,

and no word said,

                                      I
am the hum of whom

she has chosen,

                                 small trout

busy in her stream,

broken kayaks litter her backyard,

                                                                             capisce?

I didn’t, I thought he wrote capsize

and laughed,

                             he
slugged me

the way they do, men,

                                                and
I was only ten

or something, who knows

how old anybody really is.