Sunday, April 11, 2021

Complete Unknown: Shoesteps after the Film

The sea breeze, the singing palms
Say you can be anything.

Here there are lights in the mist,
Horns calling from alien ports.

The blankness that engulfs
Doesn't own you

The way that people do
When they reduce you to their view.

The gulls ask us questions.
The headlights on our faces answer.

Identity, we don't like to say, is not a
Compass point. It is the sea.