Last night, sensing the signs, Australia’s long-
time light-welterweight champ Kostya Tszyu 
threw in the towel on his last title fight

The veil between the worlds is growing thin.
The grass is growing tall outside the door.
Who was that baby in the dream again?

It was like taking the train across a border between two countries with disparate languages, one built like a fortress and one slinky as a river, and thinking about how orderly languages are, keeping within borders.

We all know where we will be a hundred years from now:
beyond the dailiness of this slow panic
and the fear always present behind the look of denial;

When I see a man
in a dress shirt, I want
to walk up behind him,

When I was a child 
I brushed as a child
which is to say often 

District of tenements, squat brick laundries,
warehouses with shoulders like boxers’,
and one shop that sells ancient maps,

Lying awake in the middle of the night.
What was and wasn’t done.
Things I don’t like about people I love.

She goes off to look at birds.
I go for a shot in the dark
With room for cream.

We began to meet there
On the mops.