I kept looking for you
The way a sky looks

For you. The way a widow
Looks for you. I climbed stone, wild

& stunned as rose. I was a revolution
At midnight, I went man to man lighting towns

On fire. I let them come
With their engines, their declarations.

I went inland with spices
In my hair. I gave up like a tide. I built

Boats for the children, animals,
The telegraph machine, the cinemas,

The sidewalks. I sent them all away so I could finally be
Alone, a tree in a field burning

Through its ringed wet heart.
It rained forever the day

You arrived. How the spade twisted down, down,
And I, like a country, began.