Passenger

Walking round Chicago
I have smuggled you as cargo
though you are far away
Unknowing

By the time we get to Salt Lake
I have packed you in my suitcase
ironed the creases
From my own remembering

She said Bird, why?

We wound our way to Texas
where I summoned remote hexes
and I sent them
Across dust and oceans

In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion
I might phone you
but there it lived and died
A notion

She said Bird, why?
I said Bird, why?

Oh my satellite
Oh my passenger

We came up on Ohio
I have you chewed on like a biro
You are a sum
I am no closer to deciphering

We came up to Minneapolis
all fizzy blood and twitchy fists
I buried you
In a day of snowing

She said Bird, why?
I said Bird, why?

Oh my satellite
Oh my passenger