Triple Step
breathless beneath blue & purple
breathless beneath blue & purple
On the edge of town, all the telephone wires are humming with her tiny fears
and we swarm it like flies / windows
milk, streaming from my open lip
Step by step, the cobblestones
remind me to stay sober.
fat,
burping tenor runs
during torah reading, we played lion king/
Thick with dice
or loose with change
the breeze tasted like
a chain-link fence
like a verdant archipelago