--- title: 'And' project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' epigraph: | "What is your favorite word?" "And. It is so hopeful." ... And you were there in the start of it all \ and you folded your hands like little doves \ that would fly away like an afterthought \ and you turned to me the window light on your face \ and you asked me something that I did not recognize \ like a great throng of people who are not you \ and I asked are we in a [church][] \ and you answered with the look on your face \ of someone [grieving something gone][] for years \ but that they had been reminded of \ by a catch in the light or in someone's voice \ and I think maybe it could have been mine \ and I looked away thickly my head was in jelly \ and I didn't get an answer from you but I got one I looked at the man in front of us with glasses \ he was speaking and holding a book \ and I didn't understand him he was far away \ and I could tell I was missing something important \ and you nodded to yourself at something he said [church]: 13-boar.html [grieving something gone]: 25-roughgloves.html