APTEST EVE

	Somewhere on the planet it was midnight.
	Someone was using her mouth

	to say the word mouth.  Someone else 
	was looking at the sky not listening

	to the palm trees calling from the shore. 
	Such a beautiful day for a tragedy

	said the statue too softly to hear 
	above summer, humming to herself 

	between the leaves.  A map of the world 
	floated by, singed at the edge**********s, 

	flapped once above the pond 
	***and disappeared beyond the rooftops 
	*
	**************************trailing a handful of 
ash.  A green light
	lit us.  Alas & alack as our mothers would say.  

	Whither & wherefore we knew not.