Pursue the facsimile
of the attendance sign;
here you must join the line.

Emerge, from way beyond the pale, one day,
clenched feet an amulet about your wrist

carved from the tusk of my grandmother
I am learning how to remember

My dad is thinking geometrically,
eyes closed; he waves his arms

they gave me the cold
cap to stop my chemo
hair falling out

A beastly man swallowing leeks. His throat
Is dirt, and yet his ghost could sit with Raphael

a conch found in hot white sand
on the shoreline at Sanur Beach
a Fibonacci whorl
among morning offerings

i am sun-shot / green-beamed / stem-steep /
hands cupfuls of heartlines / conjuring water

take your wedding ring
or it might get “disappeared”