From Which You Came

Slate Roof
Photo by Katy Brown, Davis

MAN WITH A SECRET LIFE
—John Haines

I am not the one talking to you,
the one giving directiions—
a hand waving toward a road
that vanishes...

But the one who stands still
in your bones; whose eyelids
lifting above the smoke
of the border fires, remember
the country from which you came.

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—Medusa