In the dream-photohalf of them or so
identifiedthe great grandfather
of someonegreat uncles
of the very old
or recent dead

Now she wears a golden gown
the sun a white-hot rivet overhead
She lifts the fruitso ripe she uses
only her index finger's nail to slice
and flick patches of its skin away

When Dad heard I was going to live
in Lester's mobile home he said
PerfectYou'll live in a box
sleep on onecook on oneand
watch Lester watch oneall day long