Tuesday, September 21
[I REMEMBER PARTIALLY]
I remember partially
My searching
Party going out in search
Of my own
Life my lantern light
Like water sloshing
Down the front
Of me and calling
My own name
Into the forest dusk
A partial sound
A painful braying
Syllable
That grounded
Like a current
In the dirt a yard
In front of me
But I resorted to it
Like a witness does
To memory
And reason followed
Me allowed me
To the depression
In the land
Where I was
Hiding in the wet
My shirt and socks
Soaked through
With mud
And sweat I didn't
Make it easy
On myself I never do
(Jane Huffman)