How We Survive-Kitchens, Wanderings, Corvus Corax
If you move again
I hope it will be west of you
still east of me
to diminish the distance
we can only accept
as inconvenience or
the magic ingredient
to our endurance
Our letters crossing each other
midway across the country
stir our curiosity for each other
thicken the fascination of our love
Maybe they even touch somewhere
in southern Nevada
or Las Cruces, New Mexico
where you lost your sunglasses
nearly ten years after
I bought these gold earrings
at a roadside gas station in Utah
But we didn't really know each other back then
only that we have always been
victims of the road
takers of its temptations
believers in its lost religion
it can save us
accepts our offerings of sunglasses & poetry
skin & music
If you move again
our letters will still find their way
If they were birds
they would be ravens
Like the familiars of Odin
we let fly Thought & Memory
as messengers to deliver our good news
to bring on the daylight
They travel long distances in single days
and their language is advanced, varied
keeps them alert and safe
Their voices are distinct
and the sound is from a deeper place
a place that does not deny
a realm of doom
but is also capable of creation
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