where to now—
as if a destination
provides legitimacy
easy platitudes
to chide into submission
any restless soul
where to now—
someplace else
someone other
as if history could be
stripped away clean
like sinew from bone
where to now—
a turn to a return
where always is already
like a sea anemone
retracting into itself
unfulfilled again
(August 31, 2015)
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