Traveler Tell

Traveler tell–what crosses before after and after before?
What narrow byway passes between heaven and hell?
What returns as being?–how and are and were and where–?

    Traveler, tell.

What is necessary to create the spell–
words filled in by time, conjurings that strike the circled hour?–
the not of each and both that tangles what must be revealed?
These questions pile up thresholded beyond the door—
the opening retreats as it removes the veil–
your cloak reeks endless shadowed journeys, smoke and air–

    Traveler, tell.