Monument

What is the name for an antelope

          who grazes inside a dream

then vanishes into the

                          nebula’s brush.

                   What is the face

for refurbishing grammar

              at each comma’s lip.

                   Whose identity never

remembers the shape of beige.

   What is the word

                          for how to conjure

             the sigh of a line hushed

     beneath the flap of a thousand

shifting plumes.

What is the body of a

             garden where a crescent

                    despairs, drifts beneath

   the melt of amber.

The season is always growing

out its hooves.

                          One cradlesong

           of your leaving is not larger

    than the forest of your arrival.

To make you a noun forever.

                A loss of you

cannot be equal to the loss of you.