<koertge's "written almost in the dark">
2003-05-01.12:09 a.m.


Written Almost in the Dark
Ronald Koertge


as we dress to skirt that
arroyo where animals scream
and always it seems the loudest
right where your girlfriend
disappeared.  And even now
at the sight of a person or persons
unknown we're glad to turn
and see the corridor of streetlights
that orderly constellation
the kind that pilots need
to guide them home
after they have been alone
in the rubble of the sky
and they come back to this earth
I love and don't pretend
to understand and never want
to leave unless it is with you.



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