No wonder a few hundred
years—or a thousand
are still
not enough to learn from:
how did she look
when she first heard the news
horse-powered from the border
a few weeks too late?
what was his first thought
when that cold rain which fell earlier
suddenly caught
the light of a blue moon?
History has no
people in it.
Only pictures—and, of course
words—doing things,
following certain
orders.
