Monthly Archives: September 2011

On the L Train

we change like fluttering madmen
in a firefighters frenzy
then stillness
the vast trace
of a timid yesterday too clown driven to recall

breakfast is served early.
awake to the smell of a smoke filled dawn
grey mist rising from a western mass chimney
berkshire dreams in brooklyn
only if.

in a backyard barn, five years prior
i marvel at the professor’s colored balls
two artists, married
and the woman tells us they met through rape
a yesterday longed for

in the spaces where darkness
trembles and breaks against itself

this is it. you think.
maybe, it is this.

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