navajo pass

a navajo pass allows a do over
a complete reconstruction of the
absurdity of one's life: it is not

a road, a street or a boulevard
it is the sun setting, knowing
that one's life is more than half

over and the second half better
count, better be counted out
before it is spent and forgotten

it is the sun sets, the sunrises,
the moon escapes, and the sea
that calls to allow the us in to

reconstruct that which we so
carefully aimed and destructed