ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 3
ITS USE
I turn and pick up
the line I walked
like lifting a stick
it's well-balanced
I think and
longer than me
but it won't
keep a thief away
or prop up a thing
I squat sighting
along it to check
for wiggles or flaws
a useful thing but
what is its use?
I could fish out
of time past's dark
waters the gleamy
or the sodden
or raise it
to knock down those
out of date pulses
legally and
hide them away
in all directions
it's not stealing
for they come back
in the way you feel
how the wind veers
and then reveers
lining up its pulses