the twentieth is an ordinal number
a position in space
a space occupied hard and soft
earth under snow, light direction
desire
desire for
Twentieth is more than a week and less than a month
between was and will
movement
movement towards
Twentieth is an edge, distance, an anniversary
to fall
to fall into, or out of
listening to Neruda read
I thought of Egypt, eighteen, nineteen days now
Twentieth
the twentieth papyral hieratic
un mes indigena
Today I write facing north
away from the heat of love, of revolution
Escribo
de la desesperación
de las estrellas
del viento
de la esperannza
within a position
a digit persona
of language, sand, and mountains
here is
the twentieth struggle
love, and love
multiplied
sung
sung into
