in threes

Wes said
everything
good or bad
happens in threes
so two accidents
the head the arm
and then the tooth
that makes three
the new job
is one
don’t count the move
Ali says
that’s part
of the same thing
so Eastern teahouse
are you two
and if so
what oh lord
could possibly be
three

Song by Robert Creeley

What’s in the body you’ve forgotten
and that you’ve left alone
and that you don’t want–

or what’s in the body that you want
and would die for–
and think it’s all of it–

if life’s a form to be forgotten
once you’re gone and no regrets,
no one left in what you want–

That empty place is all there is,
and/if the face’s remembered,
or dog barks, cat’s to be fed.