The New Higher

from Where Shall I Wander (2005)

        You meant more than life to me.  I lived through
	you not knowing, not knowing I was living.
	I learned that you called for me.  I came to where
	you were living, up a stair.  There was no one there.
	No one to appreciate me.  The legality of it
	upset a chair.  Many times to celebrate
	we were called together and where
	we had been there was nothing there,
	nothing that is anywhere.  We passed obliquely,
	leaving no stare.  When the sun was done muttering,
	in an optimistic way, it was time to leave that there.
	 
        Blithely passing in and out of where, blushing shyly
	at the tag on the overcoat near the window where
	the outside crept away, I put aside the there and now.
	Now it was time to stumble anew,
	blacking out when time came in the window.
	There was not much of it left.
	I laughed and put my hands shyly
	across your eyes.  Can you see now?
	Yes I can see I am only in the where
	where the blossoming stream takes off, under your window.
	Go presently you said.  Go from my window.
	I am in love with your window I cannot undermine
	it, I said.