And Elsewhere

Gone walking in town on the wet hot concrete
And wandered up a thought—did you know it was coming?
I can see you crying in the halftone dawn
And I can hear your whisper in the cold night’s song
I think of your life on the Transbay train
My hands on your coarse burnt orange alive skin
Under a silver highway spider web canopy of sound
I’m a vessel for your pain rain water in the ground

And I know peace ripples in spotted white particles
Of memory and touch rushed over through the senses
Down a sieve fist falling back gone in the vapor
Running off through matter it’s nothing, it’s everything
And you and I come from the same humid air
We belong in the present and elsewhere

And I know peace ripples in spotted white particles
Of memory and touch rushed over through the senses
Down a sieve fist falling back gone in the vapor
Running off through matter it’s nothing, it’s everything
And you and I come from the same humid air
We belong in the present and elsewhere