can you still remember / when we all stepped / in, and left our / shoes be- / hind / ?
i am too tired of being human.
so tell me stories of children.
backyard tyre willow trees, chalk and hopscotch.
tell me how they reverberate:
newton’s cradle
children, ever
pend-
ulum.
gong.
swing
-set
joy-
toes, steeped
against inclines
us mynahs kidnapping
the sky. can you still remember
when we all stepped
in, and left our
shoes be-
hind
?