Remedies

A bond must holdbetween language and mouth –Create cohesion by singinginside a funnel-cloud of bees.Carve all possible prayers into an iceberg,then go home.

Isn’t a house of leaves enough? If not,try gathering the sounds of leaves falling.Wear a dress sewn of water,then run uphill.Gather that sound.

You can’t hold timeif it’s burning away –don’t waste your life grasping.Drown your name –drown all the names –making the sweetness of naming even deeper.

If there areno maps,be a cartographer of weeds,of sand dunes,of fog.Create the only map –write its legendon the waves.