a year off

when you come back take things slow
make a moment and build an effort
we will return to travel again, whatever paths may lay behind
to proliferate and grow, to clean up and know
sound
using the old forms, borrowing methods, burning fuel and desire
a new coat, of paint, of armor, weather stripping away
used and decorated by this time
touch
closer and clearer the source
fine to our ways
getting to be
home