WHAT LIFE FEELS LIKE

 

burst in between the bottom of

the door and the floor

cracks, space and memory

 

but not as lists,

and as something more than

squares on grids,

carved into the land like

six million reclaimed

childhoods, a thought and a sound

and a green light and an alley below

fall on me fall on me

and constant, hum

that youthful sound of air

getting crazed for autumn.

 

i am not old and i am not young

and there’s nothing i can do and

there’s so much to do

and almost nothing means anything

 

but what does