One by One Examples Line Up by the Kitchen Window

Sounds we can identify without moving:

smokestack in evening, skirt, hair.

The street wrapped in light like a ribbon.

Sounds we must lift our heads to see:

smokestack in evening, skirt, hair.

Sometimes this is what keeps a man from drowning:

the belief that he will not drown.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter what he believes.

Here in the half-light, I see two of everything.

I know the distance between two points is greatest.

Whistle for yes. Hum for no.

I’ll take silence to mean anything is possible.