Pilgrim

Where has it been said or done
well enough: the city
where proud bones burn
cowboy, girlscout, pilgrim,

and skies of abrogation, streets
of abrogation, vendors pushing
muffins, cushions, starlets, old
russian freedoms: meadow,

meadow: where went wild wrong?
lost in iron reeds, beneath
mothered rubble, a
song, a dance for rain

that never came: pilgrim
do not trundle, keep your place
and master station
(though this is not enough):

you must learn to be expensive