combines fictional time with real time
a kind of psychic distance
a place that disappears
he remembers the whistle
of his father’s liturgical comb
the personal address whistle
of his sermons that low whistle
from the bedside of the deceased
the excuse-for-work whistle
the stay-at-home whistle
the whistle that sweeps and cleans
an ancestral grave orientates
the whistler’s intention
because they were born strangers
the whistler’s children carry a gene
that allows them to stand on the street
and shake hands with someone upstairs
the whistler can be heard in far-off lands
he whistles his jacket back
from an argument in Samarkand