Sometimes forget
and write September,
or some long-past year,
the moment’s default,
multiverse–
Somewhere it is
September, somewhere
it’s still summer, yesterday
bluebird at the beach
and honeysuckle–
a wash of memory,
clean sweep of tide,
a commuting.
The effect is gentle,
soft as this breeze,
yesterday’s breeze, still
a breeze somewhere, or
what will become another,
conservation,
so cleanly seen, forget
and write conversation,
again clarity in lapse
of memory, saying
what I didn’t know
I meant, surpise!
suddenly as clear as sky