time on the same earth

as Ingrid Bergman:
143 days
12 hours
30 minutes
39.32 per cent

of 1982
what audacity of that naked hello,

just needing someone to dictate the mood
anything i could do for her

is in the soil now 
& anyway i was on Eisenstein time—

perfect for the embryonic brain
that’s left to the question

of what might be borrowed, here & there
& who should be thanking who

for those narrow halcyon days