translating 'I'

                         I asked you to remember
if 'I' were sound
more intricate than a rainbow

how do ‘I’ know ‘you’

with language so delicate?

and though a child’s voice

may fade,

                        why does height

                        no longer tell age?

these words written

in chalk,

                        when did you zip 
                        before button pants?

remain in you&i

on that sidewalk

where the tree’s roots

well up on the walk home

                        How did I grow into you?