Anniversaries--- Anni Year and versus To Turn

The same Date every year

Is not the same date every year.

Babies, lovers, ghosts

I lose track of each date

you meant something to me

or corrupted sense

or disrupted control.

Each signal day

allows you an hour of

concentration-a wide

yawn of remembrance

an almost return trip

through time.  Really,

my dripping saints,

I wait on these name days,

I whisper.