Deep Tomorrow
Richard Berengarten

Hi Oh
you on yes you
the alien side I see from
of deep tomorrow afar even past
know that someone intervening mist –
else who was also called blurred deaths (mine
I was right here where you those of countless others…)
are right now. This I breathed across curtains, behind cisterns
this air, walked this earth, learned of unfathomable cloud-covered seas
and spoke this changing tongue before your very birth – could it
as you do now. The here-now be that you are genuinely my
experienced and well-known closest friend? And aye
by this I always included we together materials
you then and still and on which dreams
always includes are measured,
you right in chalked, cut,
this now stitched,
too. sewn?

(from Rough Diamonds)

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