between the dream and the doze /
spruce beetles chatter into /
the beams overhead /
it’s not exactly an evoked place /
evoking a peculiar intonation of time /
but item circled in the abstract catalogue /
dropping on the doorstep /
assuming christmas even in july /
the melt from march isn’t even a memory /
slippers sleepwalk through the intersection /
it’s as if warmth is all we have ever known /
not a particularly complicated notion /
but enough to damn us all /
for refusing to move forward and backward /
at the same time /
parking at the start and end of the street simultaneously /
almost always on schedule regardless of the day’s distance /
snow is how we should see /
every air, all at once /
acting is over /
the play is not repeated /
one time only always /
time unannounced /
tearing up the aisle carpet /
scraping the glue away /
from the winter blank below /
the cast freezes /
knowing the next line is new
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