Let me tell you this.
You don’t know him.
You imagine him
in a place of dreams,
a place with not walls but a broad plain
on all sides of him,
a spread of sand,
thin grass,
dry shed skins
to warn off all who approach the line
he’s drawn around his balls.
You imagine him with balls,
a player.
Your voice is an etch,
your veins itch,
your song is the shriek of a wound,
but you don’t know him.
He’s not the place
of dreams,
the archway face,
the doorway body.
He’s not the dreamed hands
holding the dreamed map.
He’s not
the figure.
He’s the kinetic energy
of your pelvis, the mass
of your femur, the velocity
of your toes, the moment
of your sole printing
each next section
of ground.
There
and there
and there
and there.
He’s the dark walk,
the turning,
the going.
The not knowing.