my fingertips smell like garlic like cooking like a knife and a pan like they never did when i was fed through the bars of a cell with no walls so i don't mind when my fingertips smell like garlic
March 26, 2019
my fingertips smell like garlic like cooking like a knife and a pan like they never did when i was fed through the bars of a cell with no walls so i don't mind when my fingertips smell like garlic
March 26, 2019
sometimes when you fall asleep your rumble becomes a gurgle becomes a pop pop! pop! becomes a… and I call you 'ma moitie' I call you 'beloved' I call you 'boo boo' I call you 'beep'
April 27, 2019
lost in sleep half awake dislocated in space in time invisible body pivots at the hips back and forth unable to orient
are we facing the door? the wall? the window? the refrigerator? where are we in space? in time?
until like sand after a seismic wave we settle back into our familiar shape and reality like dust floats on.
November 7, 2019
i like bus people poor people like me i like to listen to fathers with babies children with mothers shift workers regulars drifters.
i listen to their stories of prison time and chronic illness and eviction and homelessness, to the jokes and laughter to the young and the very young to the old and the old spirits to the lost middle-aged like me with a new job with homework on their knees reinventing themselves.
i like how we wait with patience and grace for mobility devices making room, moving back i like how we shout Wait! Wait! someone is running to catch the bus for a shift or a class or a court date or maybe they're just running from where they are and it doesn't matter where they go.
it doesn't always matter to me.
the places i knew, closed up and silent the people i knew, closed up and silent.
only the bus puts on its lights for me reaches the curb and kneels for me folding open to receive me enclose me shelter me from wind and rain and snow and ice to take me away or toward the glow of a window or a table between me and strangers who find me wanting where i want to be or don't even when it doesn't matter.
October 2019