Unaware of her
beauty, unselfconsciousness
gives each movement grace.
Nearing seventeen
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Unaware of her
beauty, unselfconsciousness
gives each movement grace.
Unaware of her
beauty, unselfconsciousness
gives each movement grace.
Left in Manhattan
cab. Friends’ numbers, pix of my
kids in strangers’ hands.
“We’re domestic,” a
blonde woman tells her daughter
in line at the gate.
On a cluttered Queens
balcony he stands, watching
the complex decay.
J9 can’t sleep since
her mother died stays up and
writes heartache in tears.
Today J begins
flying not yet a driver
the sky’s the limit
We watch bad TV
eat microwave popcorn feel
guilty not really.
Longing to hug them,
I wait ’til they flutter near
like moths to my flame.
Drove to the city
to shop eat sushi buy fun
things that make us smile.
Grey army trenchcoat
or lime green sixties jacket
J can pull off both.