After I Said It

And after I said it

After I fell from the window

After I turned down the bed of history

Turned down the ocean road

Far enough down the ocean road

To dune-grasses, seagulls

In these other days

In another life

I did not say it

And in a different life

In my third life

I did not even think it

At the window

In my favorite blue shirt

Light sparkling up from the water

In my fourth life, angels

In my fifth life, windows

After I Said It appears in The Far Mosque (Alice James Books, 2005).