Day 895
What are you looking for?
Whom? Yesterday’s sandstorm
blew over so many
tents, buried woodpiles,
pots, boxes. You walk,
brush away sand with your
fingers, uncover your son’s
notebook here, his jacket
there. It’s early, the sun
just up, your children
asleep. What you
look for will never
be found. The ones
you’re missing
will never come back.
And still you search.
A world. A neighborhood.
A future. Buried. Covered
now by a fine mantle
of sand. As though
your whole life
had turned to ghosts,
the ghosts of ghosts.