#2456 -- often there will be no way back

 

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often there will be no way back

 

not that can be found

 

now that the animals are all known

 

find yourself still warm, brisk out

 

puddles of light here there

 

frequently map’s torn, else cannot be read

so much dust, it’s buried or it burns

we never had one

 

feet will not reach the pedals

you’re in the back seat anyway

 

fact is you’ll not know who’s whom

done to and doing?

 

we have guessed to be here

 

it’s what you know, never twice the same

 

veranda view, splinter from the rail

 

as if always just around a corner

but no one has spoken

 

feet fly, that’s it, we’re all pursued

 

that was the easy part

 

we name the stars far beyond seeing