You must be dead at least ten years.
You must have lived an unremarkable life
before that: a teacher, say, of unremarkable

"Once More Valuable Than Gold"
—Guidebook to the Wieliczka Royal Salt Mine

         Were we in Grand Rapids,
   at the Amway
Plaza, say, the seventh or eighth person       

By the fifth day of rain
a few had begun to dance,
though not quite properly,

Not the kiss alone
      but an essence of kiss,
its dark matter left undisclosed

For the sake of argument pretend
we don't know who they are, this couple,
one on either side of a cast-iron tree