in future tense I see a home
in past tense I wonder where it went
third person, she says what went wrong
first person, I forgot the words to
hum
an arc of beginning, middle, end
three acts muddled by human error
(sin)
no awards for a life, no contract for
plot, POV, character development, story grids
I tore up all those papers or
she’d torn up all those papers
loosed them into the waters of some
undeveloped, nondescript, told-not-shown
setting
mary june brown 