Initials

He goes along,

   in his thin flesh,

   narrow bones,

   slow blood,

   old hat,

   old clothes,

   old shoes,

singing for love, battling for love.

He will go down,

   in thinner flesh,

   narrower bones,

   slower blood,

   older hat,

   older clothes,

   older shoes,

battling for love, dying for love.

He will be put away,

   in a thin box

   down a narrow slit

   of the old earth,

growing for love, rising for love:

his initials carved

   on a thin seed,

   narrow seed,

   slow seed,

the carving as slow

   as he was slow

carving his K on a song.