~ after Frost & Hirshfield
Everything started but left incompleted
would have eventually become useful:
That accounting class in tenth grade,
That landscaping class in senior year,
That auto mechanic class in junior college,
That Spanish class at university,
That green romance, that wild frolick
in the waves of Ala Moana.
But if any of these roads had been taken
to its natural end, you may not be here
pushing this pen through this iron air,
creating on this blank page a map
of how your paths diverged
and converged, so that now you're driving
this open highway, straight
for the central coast.
