used

Used

 If you are wise you step through the darkness

only one foot at a time.

                                        Colum McCann

                                        Dancer

Of course buying it used

you're wondering who's

fingers have turned those

pages before you 

and before you choose

them probably through

this particular story on view

and what each stain's got to lose

being beneath sometimes through

this particular: "An exuberant

flag" (underwear) and if it's true

was pinched and, dipped, blew

his lips her lips whose?

left sitting this cup's view

(round as a saucer's held brew)

And all along bleeding bruised

Nureyev and his way of cruising

through the two

prongs of the elusive

and invisible tuning

fork air conduction you 

know and bone conduction you

know but do you

fingers to tongue to the flue

of your eyes and nose and muse?