Revision
by Ed Werstein
How do you know when it's finished,
or at least finished with you?
How do you know,
when each time you see it
you cross out words,
change them,
sometimes changing them
back to what they were before,
and next time back again.
The same two words
. . . . . . . . . . . . . leap-frogging
. . . . . . .leaping over
. . . . . . . . . . . . . leap-frogging
each other
there on the page.
And because you're probably not ever
going to be finished with it,
how do you know
when it's finished with you,
the way she was finished with you,
while you went on,
each time you saw her,
hoping for different words
to come leaping from her mouth.
~ first appeared in Echoes
