To Catch and Retreat

  my predilections are few:
  that i wish i were better
  than i wish i was

  the guilt of having torn
  love
  from a woman

  that there is no light
  but what i see by

  the moon
  a bitter cup
 
  that i am a writer
  that i write less
  and less

  so many things i do not care for
  for sometimes being good
  at something else

  that nothing clicks
  in all these ceaseless shifts
 
  that yes the beat of this drum 
  is rhythmless
 
  that i eat lemons
  and sugar
  and drink tea

  that i've thought of goji
  that i've thought of sons

  that these letters sent to everyone
  are sent to you

  these predilections are few
  but they possess such
  irreproducible potential
 
  and that's enough.