Hoping Wishers Never Lose

by Paul Westerberg

hoping wishers never lose (chipping away until you're
through). Where's your shallow shadow lie?
What's a staggered light to do, in-step & skip-
­ping (as the kind believe)? But.
I knew the distance I'd had. (It'd seemed.)
Take the may arms slow. Decide there's all the
night to dance away.
I was landing just in time, careful to call out
just in case.”
The summer lulls, ... but I'm sleeping, too!
I was hoping I'd know what to do. I was called
on to face a fight. I was told nothing @ the time.
The windows shook & showed us out, but there
was nothing new to try: A story fashioned as a
fall, the colors (turned). Was I there @ all