30 July 2007
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17 July 2007
Alfredo Impersonator
According to the local paper
the tides should have been high
& the sun should have been up &
I should have made contact
with those who make changes.
instead
it was the evening of the day
we went to her favorite
restaurant from last year &
their menu had completely changed;
once a seafood place
with a view,
now an almost Italian bistro
with marble & mirrors.
She had read that
persistence will bring rewards
& a stranger’s compassionate remark
would stimulate her sympathy for an underdog.
instead
we stormed out,
& ate a picnic
of peanut butter & jelly
on the beach
while waiting for our
horoscopes to come true.
the tides should have been high
& the sun should have been up &
I should have made contact
with those who make changes.
instead
it was the evening of the day
we went to her favorite
restaurant from last year &
their menu had completely changed;
once a seafood place
with a view,
now an almost Italian bistro
with marble & mirrors.
She had read that
persistence will bring rewards
& a stranger’s compassionate remark
would stimulate her sympathy for an underdog.
instead
we stormed out,
& ate a picnic
of peanut butter & jelly
on the beach
while waiting for our
horoscopes to come true.
16 July 2007
13 July 2007
12 July 2007
10 July 2007
Summer Oven Letter
Dear Nana,
The weather here, hot. Slow burning heat your
toaster oven door left open & set to full
blackness burning bagels, bread, tiny
imitation pizzas into dessicated cardboard
landscapes pockmarked & cratered, no hours of
clear water revival can revert post mark lost
stamp torn off, a pile of paper in your foyer
& puzzles tied with a twine string, just, stillness.
vacuumed silence aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sliced & served
with a small plastic cup revealing your voyages to
Colonial Williamsburg, Bermuda, or Disneyland time-traveling
mementos documenting weather patterns in letters
How many squirrels did you see today?
Certainly more than me. I have 73 channels to
flip through compared to your fuzzy five
so time exploring the yard, the garage,
the basement, memories, weather, took precedent to
TV dinners fishamajigs & a sinking slow heat
seeping through storm doors vacuum packages &
your places for hiding money--plastic children's cups
I think--palmed bills warm from your hands,
I know you saw squirrels today.
........................................................ XOXO Chris
09 July 2007
i did not see jenny
i saw a man
cleaning out
the pond
brushing
the water
pure
dropping
the everyday
slop
a cigarette butt
a fast-food cup
to find
fish &
turtles
ecosystem eyes
honey suckle
vines
french toast
flowers
enveloping
a tree
drawing from
her water.
cleaning out
the pond
brushing
the water
pure
dropping
the everyday
slop
a cigarette butt
a fast-food cup
to find
fish &
turtles
ecosystem eyes
honey suckle
vines
french toast
flowers
enveloping
a tree
drawing from
her water.
03 July 2007
W.E.B. Du Bois can you really stack books that high?
aaaa I am afraid of your elevator
with dings metering a breaking
building's heartbeat
its windows popping in pressure
its roots sinking in a
design that did not account
for the weight of words
squeezing bricks
from the tower walls
in an
architecture of tears
with dings metering a breaking
building's heartbeat
its windows popping in pressure
its roots sinking in a
design that did not account
for the weight of words
squeezing bricks
from the tower walls
in an
architecture of tears
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