you always know where you are
I cannot relate

(to know where you are
you must be in one place)

even now this toe is in the ocean
this hand still touching the train that left
this ear full of a child’s wailing
this one, a bird, far-off

you can go anywhere in the alpine
(what you carry is only what you packed)

rare air above the talus slops

but even on a summit
I am already halfway back