You’re three and I can see you you have run away
………… Across the park you turned once….. first you ran
………… Fifteen or twenty steps or only ten
Laughing then turned to make….. sure I was watching you
Still in the boxed-in….. park in the empty park in….. Salem where
………… We live….. except for some tall evergreens
………… With wide and bare trunks….. near the library
And then you ran until you were half-hidden….. far-
ther….. you’re hiding behind a tree….. I see your arm
………… The branches meet above your head in the branches
………… And part in sudden gusts….. you shout Come find me
You’re three you’re young enough….. to go and not be gone