Static

I tried to explain

I have only lived

in flat places

where walking is easy

I suggested he walk

our Alps-like neighborhood

while I stay home and

make notes in my new journal

with the cover

of a woman’s head with a plant

growing out of the top

then I saw the back of him

I heard the door closing

the scraping of dirt, for a long time

he was moving fast and hard until

he came in to tell me he made

a level track around our house for me

stunning me, he laughed and told me

some of my hair was responding

by flying out sideways from my head

moved by the same electricity

I keep trying to explain

with words alone