She sat down to feast
at Life's Table
polishing stars
for the summer night;
...
'Come over here' he said
'Let's you and me
talk private.
...
If I fly
then I am off the ground.
If I am off the ground
...
'It's all a road we build'
he said
'you lay down the concrete
or tar for the asphalt;
...
You can break my heart
but it is a heart
only you can fix.
...
Generational change
wins always
because the old and middle-aged
develop a clouded lens
...
In my photo album
languish years
compressed and angled
...
I am in the middle of this book about President Obama.
I am from Chicago, He is from Chicago.
He did his community work in the neighborhood where I grew up.
He was a senator from my old neighborhood of Hyde Park.
...
The Poets all march to the edge-
some perching
at the abyss of Screaming Desire;
Hearts exploding
...