words in the right order here and

there a rest making room for breath and letting a few of the words sink in

careful/with care how a song is to be sung if one sings it and

the last of the requirements

for care is clear having come through the ambiguities/tears having had to learn the

meaning

of the blues

what will fit on a bracelet a simple inscription

all these years later

hear me now having stepped back and needing to come forward

this poem is a song an

act

a work of love.