Sister

("Wish upon a star if that might help")

(for RD)

So, dialectically is the One there a real browning star, rough-edged, or just Two one falling through the other? Can I still want the One as sad as it looks, crossed & fallen, too? I saw a star, she and I did, probably the One a long time ago —wings set for flight— & a sky that really wasn't

(2010)