of the local. “Deity,” we
asked, “what have we not known?”
Gears enmeshed, out of sync.
The blue-eyed fishmonger

asked, “What have we not known,
carrying memory in slack songs?”
The blue-eyed fishmonger
liked the grandstanding,

carrying memory in slack. Songs
you sang, “How like the city!” You
liked the grand. Standing
among blue sand and panic grass,

you sang how, like the city, you
came to me with your feet uncovered,
among blue sand and panic. Grass,
crossing dogprints,

came to me with your feet. Uncovered,
you sang, “O be, sway with the Lady!”
Crossing dogprints,
certain horn and reedmen. Playing along,