You Sang

Songs tend to be slower—

A little bit—than speech,

With higher and slightly

More stable pitches, as

Kevin Young—or was it

A team of scientists—

Noted at Princeton U—

Or somewhere—community

Building distinctions, just

Slightly stabler, more like

Mark Doty’s white roses,

A little denser than

The fog—a line to be

Crossed. Tell me where they end,

Doty ended. Someone

Took the refrain from him—

Chorus of white roses?

Answered a broken cloud.