time travel is possible
according to the vit map
state-saving
albeit with information loss
no historian condones
freezes the look on his face
by the Sky Harbor car rental counter
". . . and your father died"
cloud filtered light against the Getty
where with thirty year friend
we examined fine shadows quilting the masonry
and read in each other what we dared not say
and the bright San Diego
desert wind holding the 727 aloft
before the collision above North Park
answered a hundred unasked questions
and the FLW fury over the transmission line
to bisect the Maricopa panorama
because the Wisconsin murder-fire
still raged when then the pencil
paused over the Museum sketch
when your father dies
seize the cameras, files, tools, cabaret lights
that loop will replay
until it burns through the acetate
when your father dies
streets fill with strangers
timelines become gridlines in garrison towns
in which one travels unmoored
19 September 2011