i am

how to become a rocket.

I am how to keep going up

the stairs and up.

I am how to make you love me.

I am how I become whole,

a slow becoming, I am

how to swell with juice the fruit

and I am how to drink the juice as well.

I am how a man in the hallway,

singing vamos vamos te amo te amo te amo,

he cuts and stomps the carpet.  

I am how to keep going.

I am how to sit very still and watch

for color and mise en scéne.  

I am how quick bites and slow licks,

tomorrow I am how tomorrow,

as I am how yesterday, I am how today

as well.  I am how to eat with chopsticks.

I am how grape becomes wine.  

I am how to know what but not when.

I am how you are we are steady, let's be okay.