Distances

Dovecotes of distance between courtyards

and a library of parchment days

stacked on the shelves, vaguely disordered;

zigzag winter rain on smoky haze

of roofs and fists and wrists of time.

Grey gobbets of gum stuck on gray-white

walls, rims of bricks; peppermint-lime,

pink faded tissue of toothless kites

their strings unravelled, their trajectories -

whatever the arc, brought to a stop

between the branches of naked trees,

like a giant hung faulty dewdrop.

The parapets dark-furred with the growth

of many distances between our truths.