We Create Backwards to Arrive Here
2010 February 23
for Joe
So the last shall be first, and the first last.
Matthew 20:16
The last thing I remember is playing pool,
then Christmas again,
then you are born.
All of this happened far away
from today: our galaxay
travels millions of miles each hour.
The dust is not settled
on the volcano, the solar eclipse
not lost its lips–
your name echoes
inside a locked sanctuary.
You can only read this
if you stand on another planet
and look down.
Can you see it now?
The last thing is playing pool,
then Christmas again,
then you are born.
The first thing is last,
the second just happened,
and the last is first.
We write in this direction
when we create backwards
to arrive here:
true again and there
all the time.
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