David Trinidad Poems

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1.
To Arielle and the Moon

The night reduced to a siren, a sigh:

Beautiful boy on the treadmill

Glimpsed sweating through sweating glass—
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2.
9773 Comanche Ave.

In color photographs, my childhood house looks
fresh as an uncut sheet cake—
pale yellow buttercream, ribbons of white trim
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3.
James Schuyler

I went to his sixty-sixth birthday
dinner: sixteen years ago this past
November. I remember that it was at
Chelsea Central (his favorite restaurant:
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4.
Red Parade

Depressed because my
book wasn't nominated
for a gay award,
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5.
Slicker

came in a pink,
orange and white
striped metal tube,
with a black curlicue
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6.
Written with a Pencil Found in Lorine Niedecker's Front Yard

Bewitched
the boys were out
in force

Drunken-
ness and lust
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7.
One of 100

To be one such one—for one night only.
To be singled out
for this brief distinction
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8.
My Yoko Ono Moment

for Nick Twemlow

It's annoying
how much
junk mail
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