"Practice looking far up the trunk
of an incarnate spectacle, remembering your name
as you would wish anyone else to recall in arboreal chandelier,
a variant of Helen.
Practice listing the name of those you trust,
cover their faces with filigreed air, divulged utterance.
Tell them your mouth preserved with lime.
Walk back remembering Verdansk.
Practice not obliging a gleaming custom which
does not match your future.