Let’s meet at the blank
and smile like tourists
at monuments imbued with where
we read wrote
drank smoked
skipped kissed

Let’s sit on the steps
and recollect moments
late hazy unsure
about who we were
careful to misstep
and avoid remembering
too much
hope
-
A mom fancy footworks with her daughter
the heels of once was on stage

We are never the same as we were
though we were there together

Hope lingering
in these in betweens
-
Nebulous glances
forgotten songs

Overtime the experiment is more and more controlled
decreased odds of a nuanced cat call
upper crust subtle looks dissolved

In the hungover morning of now
we blink at one another
as if light could be too bright

The next generation of children plays tag
Not yet sneaking off to glances of their own

And we still blink
our eyes unclosed
nothing too much

just us
-
Be here
this is no game of chess
you are remembered not for what you said
but how what you said made someone else feel

Dear trees so old
What does your witnessed account
tented event
on tented event hold?

The same factions split off
for the same statues
to make some version
of the same
whispered conversations

The catalogues the green must keep

We long for microfiche
though we’ve long lost hope
that it can all be categorized

Only on the worst days we think
it can
-
We no longer plant a garden
but the wildflowers still grow