Stream Trail in Spring
I could hear the shuffle of a spotted towhee
I could hear the shuffle of a spotted towhee
I fish them out every evening, lay them down
I grew up like a speeded prayer
Let your skin remember the path your ancestors carved in silence
Cattails spread across the old parking lot
i am clocked in for 30 minutes when i get the call
Dead boys wear sun-bleached keffiyehs on the walls of a stone city
the family who squatted between our house and the bog
I spotted my son’s dangling wet hands.
The Danube is, afterall, the biggest Jewish graveyard