ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 4
ADDRESSING YOU
if you are staring at me
and I feel I ought or ought not
be ashamed
and your faces turn blank
to help me in case I should say
what is best kept silent
and the silence between words
is a great book of empty pages
you can write yourself on
it is our turn to live and
make something of our surroundings
what the others left behind
and what has never been touched
like the simple stones
I collect
the ones that are not
special or in any way striking
small enough to ignore
or hold in my palm
like a selection of eyes
with nothing beautiful about them
except their watching