In line at the PO: Burgundy and tan large-check houndstooth polyester pants. Too XL collard short sleeve button-up – racing black triangles-on-cream last seen in 1985. Newsboy leather hat. Lace-up fawn oxfords, back left, center seam unstitched, perfect paper airplane folds in leather barely contains Achilles tendon bulging through thin white sock.
Tag Archives for summer
August 15, 2011
Summer stigmata: sandal blisters, watch band tans, BBQ grill burn. Crucify me on a tomato stake; don’t forget the salt and mayo.
August 12, 2011
Two angels with brown skinned knees fly over the Park’s cobbled perimeter past bed-time, heads bowed, mohawks front, arms wide and flapping for a midnight liftoff.
August 10, 2011
One tower for two – the wrong silhouette – topped by crane arms’ twinned antennae sending / receiving…. I could see you, all of you, better in that skyline gap, negative polestar of my daily orbit.
August 5, 2011
Cicada miasma obscures swingset shouts in the dusk.
August 2, 2011
Pretty boys in the West Village, so many hairless cats and whippets, grown sleek in security (thank goodness!), scars artfully pressed flat under clingy, ribbed v-necks.
August 5, 2011
From mid-river, the drip-drip of cars over the afternoon Brooklyn Bridge are mercury blobs pushed across my lab desk at pencil point, silver balls looking for a slot in the Labyrinthe.
May 5, 2012
Douglas fir grey with remembered chill, stolid behind hazy willows-gone-wild, waiting for winter love.
August 2, 2011
Dianthus blue dwarves explode in the median, constellated among waving dark matter webs of summer grass.
August 1, 2011
mid-day snail trails shimmer ghost silver perpendicular across the two-by-four grey grain planks to the water
high-heeled sneakers 