Compass

from Compass by Roy F. Bush

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Whatever feeling brought you here
I don’t think it’ll hold out
Don’t leave
Don’t leave me alone.
I’m so high that
I fall down

What’s it like to nurture a life
or something of yours?
How do you take each day:
devoted to such a lovely thing?

Waking with discretion to
ensure flowers grow from seeds

Our tether is torn & I can’t
reform it,
A you-shaped chasm
You demit.

If I leave it alone enough
I won’t see it, but
it won’t heal
if I’m
picking at it
Forever continues to be
Ever spinning
Retracing paths
a compass drawing circles
Perfect and recursive

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from Compass, released November 26, 2021

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