Confession

I am an unmade bed,

I am the chittering call of a bird,

I am a yellow book, observant of cruelty as a physician is observant of skeleton,

I am the year it takes for a path to be worn,

I am dust that dreams of being ash,

I am the view from a small hill,

I am the thing that might be moving in the compost,

I am a leap that cannot land,

I am explanations, explanations, when you need answers,

I am turpentine, molasses and chalk,