Prayer for Forgetting

You learn to worship what you can't forget	I wanted to write a poem that you would understand	(prayer for the departed)	The difference between us is cruelty
We are starstuff	I offer a toast to endings, and to forgetting	You are lethargy and I write to wake you	The lonely ones will find each other by the heat of their bodies
How to get dressed if you are a man	Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him	the places we keep our dead	I tried to memorise her, from beginning to end
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace	(prayer for the millennium)	Song for Leaving	In Memoriam; Lucy
Days when art is too much to bear	When we two parted	We are all starstuff, billion year-old carbon; got to get ourselves back into The Garden	Editor Log: July 2001
I Keep Forgetting	Slipping through your bejewelled fingers	Everything, Kansas: A Manifesto