I’m going again after just six weeks
regular like a regular
I can remember when I left determined to leave the broken pieces there
without me
as if I could find what went missing in this new place
there came to linger parts that I could not puzzle out yet
could not put down
so I travel again to rejoin my heart to these pieces
all without them knowing what I had left behind or
letting them think their own thoughts about the pieces along the side of the road as they drive to work or
to the grocery or even
over to their father’s
the pieces that bring me to mind in their mind
but stir no sense of who I am now