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What gold flitter has made of your ear

a hive? Clouds tug loose a last dream

and now the rainfall bears down

your secrets. The question’s not

if the river had its way with you,

spit you out as a small inquiry

unfit for the big answer. No,

the question won’t pertain to tattoos

or unmatchable DNA, but to what

world, under what sun, in what situ

we go on finding each you, each you,

the not-missed, the never missing.

***

We stand at the foot of you.

Bees and swallows rustle the grass

around half flesh, half bone, half

here, half gone. Dot of earth: nothing

owed or owned. Once you were a bud

in someone’s belly. A swim, a sleep,

then to crown your way out. Keep

mum. Keep it to yourself, Little Prince

of the Reigning Question,

the would-you-do-it-all-again

there there, now now.

Found on the bank of the Spokane River at approximately 2200 W. Falls Street. Adult Caucasian male. This male was 5 feet 11 inches in height and weighed approximately 161 pounds. His hair was dark brown or possibly black. Clothing worn: a pair of black lace-up boots with a brand name listed as “CORCORAN,” a pair of black socks, a pair of light blue denim pants with a brand name listed as “RUSTLER,” a pair of red slightly meshed undershorts, a dark colored T-Shirt with the size listed as medium and a name brand of “EDDIE BAUER.” Dental identification information obtained, no match found. Fingerprints unobtainable.

—Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Records