Acer Sacharrum

Your body is asleep in the house you moved to when you were fourteen, but your brain is wide awake in your old school library.

When I am no longer myself  
And you are no longer yourself  
Will we meet again?  

My grandmother never cut flowers with scissors, raised her nonexistent eyebrows plucked beyond all veins of recognition, blinked one eye fishlike & said a knife was all she needed.

in the mud,

in the dirt,

in the silt,

in the pores of the earth,

with the worms,

the moles,

the bugs,