Migration

Jeffrey Foster Burr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if you thought of your own, laughing
night passes limits, the weather and all its tunes

we start with photographs
how they follow us, precede our being

into small rooms, ships that ran a thousand miles
holes that can't be polished or be filled

it's not the heart but curiosity that rushes outward
passing secrets in its many arms

voices that have not been married
names without a single tongue

throughout time there has been
time

as if hands had taken you from inside
in a direction that you've never known