Early Morning Lines for Joanne

I can remember 50,127 things

the 50,128th slips my mind
              dissolves in the vast emptiness
we share
                            blank sky
                                      endless sea

“Happy Full Moon in Taurus!”
              said JK on the phone last night
                            her timing impeccable as always

& later I thought about how
we both live near the same ocean
although she is 101 miles north of where I sit
lounging on the divan
                            w/my arm dangling
to the floor
              like Sherlock Holmes

lost in a reverie trying to remember
every syllable of scattered precision