ends

Sometimes I walk
between two brick buildings
an easy path
of numbered steps
when usually I don't think
of my steps
today I thought of each one
looking down
to follow the grey stone
in the brick that seems to make
a straight line going
where I'm going.

On this stone
I've thought my straight steps
before they've been taken
and moving slowly
I can fall
off the beam
into the sky below.

And sometimes
in the attic
I think still
sitting on your white couch
if the floor fell out
would my face flinch?