Wherever I look you are islands
a constellation of flowers breathing on the sea
deep-forested islands mountainous and fragrant

It is nothing new
for horses to be harnessed to hemispheres
it has happened at intervals

It was that other land that we
could believe in for a long time
knowing that it used to be there

Look at you bringing 
Your children up just as formerly 
And look at me back again 

How did someone come at last to the word for patience
and know that it was the right word or patience

my limbs down through dark rocks calling to the summer
   where are you where will you be how could I have missed you

Wherever I look you are islands
a constellation of flowers breathing on the sea
deep-forested islands mountainous and fragrant

Look at you bringing 
Your children up just as formerly 
And look at me back again 

Wherever I look you are islands
a constellation of flowers breathing on the sea
deep-forested islands mountainous and fragrant

invisible beam that wells up and bursts from its
   unknown star on on on never returning