Creation.
The blind woman knows where she lives
in no way I can see. I drive back and forth,
for these minutes her borrowed, ignorant eyes,
and when the place happens on us I help her out,
not sure what help she doesn't need.
She reaches for rough, familiar grain
and her railing appears; one step
and coarse gravel stretches home before her.
She aims good-bye at where my voice last was,
waves her long white wand, and around her
the known world lurches to life
rushes up from everywhere
all still here.
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