don’t include everything you know don’t include time and the other
thieves don’t include the early age of little ones assembling
suns include the several dragging sounds of husbandry
include the parents with the one voice of many mice
whisper what you’ve learned to children fallen
which had been a man in his fifties escaping whisper to
the light in her room where the room in the man had been
and include the light resembling skin remember when
the baby was throwing out its own bathwater include that
include Uncle Shady offering a wilted rose remember
the mulberry thump whispering apple kisses a disease of amen
include where there’s allegory in The Parable of the Elderly Fly
better not to explain austerity to the new country’s dampness
include fingers scented with heartburn include a lake
without a shore a river with no banks don’t include
what you’ll do in the after don’t include when you’re after
don’t include a question you lost that had something to do with
memory don’t include the mask of action worn by politicians
repeating itself to no end but include the weapon you can point
only one direction include a philosopher risen early to query the sun
don’t include the rustle of an insect circling inside a bowl or the grasses
of the meadow brushing our passage like the touch of distant planets include
butchered oxen and pottery along the road cheering the liberators
with their empty gullets and standing to the attention deserved
don’t include the huge black eyes of the horse bulging in fear
a box of caramels or the puppet that frightened her include
a gentleman shaped with the shears of a windstorm I’ll be
two arms and a hidden place you be the absence include that