IT’S NOT THE LEAVING, IT’S THE COMING BACK:

This one for the sky hole to kiss me, this one for the earth
to remain, this one for recycled wind to breath, this one for
Essex to hold the memory, this one for black top, this one for
fields, this one for frozen puddle sticks, this one for flooded
ditch, this one for bin day, this one for sun rise, this one
for the star I watched from bed one morning following the turn
of the world,this one for the leaving,
this one for our safe return.

(K)