where did it go? where did that
body go
where did that , wisp, love, go?
in snow? half-cut rhyme slacked
by the running section of tuba-trombone?
was that her hair, in the wind, on a night bus,
parking near the back of a cabin, a language,
gift, to her eyes, tongue, the air of its salt taste,
the rare reckoning of love, her, her s .
