A thread of birds has settled outside your door. Spring is coming, and you lean back, Waiting for its root-juicy kiss. Politely, charmingly. Once, during a summer, you came without shoes, without any maps, and settled Into my elbow while this hemisphere turned blue. We were urban, unkind animals and I never once thought of champagne. How often you'd want me to tell you your future. Show me your palms, the lumps on your head, As if I knew what my mother knows best: how to inflame things at a distance. Now, you think of me with a casual chuckle. Now, you save me like an auctioned-off bon-bon: Brought out on a doily for guests to admire. I know, and it's all in my pocket. Just press your ear against your back door. There's a sound I've sent. It's there to haunt you. Like a cello. Like a buzzsaw. I hope you're enjoying yourself.