the line extending up from my heart into your head
is an error-seeking path & pleasantly misled
& although they may be significant to free
the older babies are younger sons-to-be
on transit footfall plays, comfort comes in waves
a million-sided face breathing memories we've saved
we'll find a light one day arching over hudson bay
a branch tip in the haze or on the sky's redacted grey
drawing clear the dark, we blindly heed to dusk
ignore a h***y lark cos the world's too much with us
home unties the knots in my tongue & round my hands
carving out our verities with dream-peppered doubt & plans
i sought a way to convince history to hesitate
is an error-seeking path & pleasantly misled
& although they may be significant to free
the older babies are younger sons-to-be
on transit footfall plays, comfort comes in waves
a million-sided face breathing memories we've saved
we'll find a light one day arching over hudson bay
a branch tip in the haze or on the sky's redacted grey
drawing clear the dark, we blindly heed to dusk
ignore a h***y lark cos the world's too much with us
home unties the knots in my tongue & round my hands
carving out our verities with dream-peppered doubt & plans
i sought a way to convince history to hesitate