I look for you in all the old places
a series of shabby apartments and a Mexican restaurant 
that teal-slashed sweater from your yearbook photo 
1992

gone now, land unmarks

I trace the trail of us in memory’s atlas
a dotted line crossing borders like in an old movie 
big letters for your grandfather’s store, italicized
rivers of music

garbled now, lost-making

I run the roads of us all uncharted
boundaries blur like the lenses in old movies
I see you smudge-soft in Christmas and
Siamese cats

clouds hide the end of the world

called a nurse by your name, saw your face on a stranger
out of place, out of places, I find you everywhere
the bright arrow that fixes the map of vanished things
You Are Here

and so here I am