Somewhere with Your Name
       

Somewhere there's a dog
with your name
roaming the streets hungry
somewhere there's a child
running away
with your name
somewhere there's a check
with your name
and no signature
somewhere there's a saint
with your name
and no belief
somewhere there's an escapee
creating a new identity
with your name
somewhere there's a bird
whose song is made
with your name
somewhere there's a gravestone
with your name
setting aslant in the weeds
somewhere there's a star
with your name
falling toward you

Copyright © 2010 Michael Rattee All rights reserved
from Falling off the Bicycle Forever
Adastra Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission