In Defense of Personal Priorities in a Global Society

--for Annie especially,
but also for RB & KK, TM & HA,
for Heather in reverse,
and for Andy, who did the thing.


She spent years away
fearing death after seizing
life by its hot throat.

Returning, she found
both had gone on without her--
She hadn't escaped

the revolutions.
A peripheral view gave
no security.

When they say follow
your heart, I guess that means your
heart is someplace else.

Dots on a map blink,
sustain each other, converge
sure as satellites.