mom,
one dayday unknown, but known to be,
I’ll have to hear your laugh in the crowsand smell your skinin the wet bark of a tree,
the leaves rattle.they used to breathe so softly small rises and falls with wind song. so full of moisture, vitality, promise so unknowingof the inevitable stiffness but the stiffness has come. a rickety racket their bodies noisy now drainedof all moisture bent and hunchedover when a foot meets they cry a crinch-not a woosh- then…
the light on the hillin the distance
saturday morning, fort greene park
on one side a farmer’s marketteeming vegetables,deep healthy hues,beaming faces,vitality.
my favorite days are thosewhere we have the absolute privilege to watchthe light unfold its tender story
the difference between manhattan and brooklyn
is that in manhattan
you can’t help but look
at the billboardsand storefrontsand undeniably fashionable peopleto set an expectationfor how your life should be
a poem
tohold
with twohands
that takesme
up andupside downin betweenand within
by hisunzippedbootstorn pantsand bent glasses
by his discerningnear-agonizingstareand fingersbetween his teeth
what will itbe like
tohear
the morningrobin’s song —
so sweetso consistentso indifferent —
after you’re gone.
beyond
just beyond the comfortablepast the stuttering of our eyesif we can hold on we’ll reach
a deeper resting place where new stories begin.