See! I Will Not Forget You.
I Have Carved You on the
Palm of My Hand.

...And here's a plantain,
root like a vortex taking my hand,
but I work myself back to the surface.
See! The ground you prepared for us
holds on. It fills my hand, this humus,
folds and parcels of garden
and none of it pouring away.

Thomas Reiter
Verse Daily Mar.10.04