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On the roof


To remember the future
so as to be there first and know the place,
there has to be a key for it.

To hear the wind first
and know whose door opens and why,
there must be a way

to open the book before even it is printed,
before thought or drafted,
to be there in the reeds waiting.

Now, as things are,
looking down through the skylight
sure I can get the music right
without instruments to
discover who’s there.