I Write My Name
in straight
black letters,
the smallest
thought I own.
One by one
I climb
each peak,
then fall back
to the ground.
You see them
as a smudge,
the remnants
of a fire
gone out.
Go ahead,
take up
your cloth,
wipe my
fable clean.
September 11, 2006
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