with hand on anguished forehead
he says, the superior goal
is the life-realization of
an awkward sentence
there a police officer, ghastly pale
answers, today, people use
multi-ethnicity
to understand, summarizing and
terrortorialized
mark us with explanation
words on autumn leaves:
identity means welcome
into a shared question
a petal’s collapse
a flower’s falter
an i outsteps advancing time
take refuge in your roots
hand beneath your generous chin
your displaced de-territorialized
space of action
in migrant fields
dust old sorrows
in ancient anguish