There and Here (a cleave poem)

there, come upon a greening once

in ticked and timely woulds

where all footed plantings have danced and swirled,

he takes a speculative girl

they tip-toe tentative steps of belonging

to meet, to part, join fingers and twirl

till they reach an inevitable verge

but with each successive passing

of the will to do and was not true

she grows fainter in his mirrored should and

their shy shadows wobble in recognition that

her hands can only feebly grasp at

what's lost is found, but never bound to

this fading pane of here