A BIGGER BOY ONCE TOLD ME

                                                                            A BIGGER BOY ONCE TOLD ME,

                                                                            (when more were all

                                                                             my dreams less real

                                                                             than when I didn’t have to deal

                                                                             in dreams at all)

                                                                        those clouds we

                                                                             saw from merely standing on this sand

                                                                             were seen from here

                                                                             and far away or near

                                                                             as maybe . . . even. . . Samarkand.

                                                                        And I believed.

                                                                            But such, I guess, is time . . .

                                                                             for I had no idea

                                                                             it was the stars he had in mind.