Laura Moriarty

"light which is not sum" —Norma Cole, Mars The workaround or aura Not like repetition When we get to the final sun The maps are water the water gold He would not honor me You explain then against The disbelief displayed by the character I couldn’t know him But knew love and Know it through knowledge “Love never falls off whether prophecies will be abolished whether tongues stopped” Announced as the fact Redolent of what was The defining addition More than the parts Unprecedented Ardor also not Adding up to Sun or son to sum The outcome Unknowable Perfect and Unavowed The same sound Unknown sum

for Jerry Estrin Snow covers The hills one by one Our neighborhood Characters become San Francisco 1874 Words later language A photograph At home when Light writes 1974 Or 1979 We move where The Lives of My Books Pages accumulate Not legible as themselves Historical time 1989 Startled leaves us Unafraid though Overgrown Died in 1993 Moved in 1994 In pink stone Earlier in "The Park" Wrote shells and cherubs The cathedral The fountain