what is home

and that is good
just plain good
i was going to
write of home

of how he took
me by the hand
and said let's go
home - but now

it is needless
to go home
to a place
of this existence

is not home - it is
a folly - believed
by me - i am home

when he holds
my hand, or when
i read your poem

or when i kiss my
child, in a dream
of dream that i live

my existence is - for
gotten - he has gone
home, you have typed

a last word to pack
up, my child has built
a box for valentines

and i am no where about

that is home - a pebble's throw in a child's hand