Cup of pleasure wafts
aromatic steam warming my
lips pursed for a sip.
Earl Grey
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San Diego fire 5 – Family back east
California burns.
Your life separate from us?
Now just smoke and ash.
San Diego fire 4 – Remembering Del Rio Road
We visited once.
Soaked in your hot tub under
the lemon tree’s shade.
San Diego fire 3
Spring Valley is bone
dry. Here in New York skies rain
tears of compassion.
Left behind
What’s necessary?
The triage of memory.
A pyre to the past.
Packing to evacuate
Photos first, then the
baby albums. Love letters.
We can buy new clothes.
San Diego fire 2
Her view from the hill
– once so fine in good weather –
just blackened landscapes.
San Diego fire
Anne emails to say
smoke plumes rise like shrouds of loss.
Below, hell ablaze.
Problem
In bad rains bathroom
ceiling leaks. A slow tick tells
of water stains mapped.
Journalist
Writing about rape.
Prostitution. Injustice.
Happy talkie talk.
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