EVEN SO

Our cat cries at night for no reason.
A yawl through her one contiguous

room until I find her there she is in
the bathtub looking lost there she is

in the hall. It’s amazing light from
a bulb will find you everywhere

you look its looking back in every
shade and— Imagine color without

a shape. Imagine a wall at the lip
of the visible universe in all directions

equidistant now touch it bowl on top
of bowl a bell and you its clapper.

When I drop our cat she goes right
back to yawling lost along whatever

wall I found her. Sometimes the rock’s
so big you build the house around it.

And because the house is there
the street is there, and all the houses

on the street are there all the people
all the gaps between the people and

the gaps between the gaps are gaping
open oceans learned to hug the land.