Nonsense only yesterday—
sweet sepia breezes,
fat bees grazing
on tufts of wild aster
this morning are
monuments—directionless
headstones, even
road signs frozen over.
No names left now
but our true ones.
Suddenly, we have come
all at once—
starved saints among us
to their ledges; the rest
of us, tomb-less ghost soldiers
building makeshift bridges—
to rush the perilous
mountain peak of
all prior knowledge
and experience.
