How I get to where you are

stars, streetlights, lampposts, nights, waves,
windows, flowers, leaves, people
who get along, people who are with other people,
clocks, universes, cups, papers, poems, trains,
lists, knives, grandmothers, mothers, touch,
pins, hair, coats, their pockets, coins, smoke,
hands, fingers, bodies, clouds, electric wires,
cities, maps, geographies, biographies, faces
of the moon, prologues, epilogues, clothes,
closets, books, pages, petals, minds, t-shirts,
songs, guitars, pianos, instruments, breath,
storms, stairs, staircases, skirts,
things that have no names, butterflies,
moths, ladybugs, memories, light bulbs, night
lights, kisses, glasses, sadnesses,
eyes, tears, laughter, tongues, tribes,
nations, flags, letters, lovers, poets, their lives, disarranged
furniture, oceans, landscapes,
grass, trees, their fruits, ants, spiders, existence,
footprints, blood, wounds, scars, their afterforms, blanks,
readers, reactions, bags, birds,
feathers, fireworks, scrap paper, fire, skies, lots, empty
lots, houses, streets, cement, floor, bathrooms, stones,
clenched fists, hearts, veins, pens,
ink, lions, roars, ghosts, ropes, unending
stories, cliffhangers, cliffs, sobrieties, alcohol, judgments,
the book of judgments, God, offices, desks, boards, rocking
chairs, boats, someplaces, feelings, frowns, taste,
mangoes, starch, constellations,
mess, friends, family, dead
people, news, headline, lines
from songs, chapels, magazines, fear,
alone, loneliness, happiness, days
without sun, patches of silence,
silence, souls, you, weaknesses