yorkleaving

eightfortyfive goodbye wave, outside,
glancedback tearineye smile; watcher
at window lifted fingers in response: last
of them, but for him. nother non
company kept, nineohfive laughing
sighed: goodbye. me-and-he then, to-
get-
her came tenfifteen some mo(u)rning
yearagone, leavetaking now: different.
first ninetwenty failcatch train, afraid,
on purpose. person one, persons
two, personal, wordless. foodfed yet
full—killclock, sinkingpit stomach. wit’s
end. fourthirteenseventhirtytwoohonepast-
midnight when everything placefallen
into: sad, so soon after. tenohtwo train
on, he fell sleepdead, i awake. uppicked by
one unbegun: envy, undersurf. yorkleaving
difficult, insecure, broken. spokenwords fail.