For Ezra

 

In the land of ducks

with no water

save a fountain

in the lobby,

we journey to see

our duck (?) to be

baptized from

a font at the altar.

We are all creatures

of air

and land

and water

in our separate

lives, which

push us to believe

somehow

we are not

the same,

but

We Are.

- Peabody Hotel, Memphis February 2025