day 26: i was promised spring

Teasing sun, fresh rain calling
Blossoms on trees everywhere, man, blossoms and blooms and things are alive
I’m sure it’s still there, city of the quiet, looming above those who still have no homes
We all kept distance anyway; downtown a defense was to look straight ahead unflinchingly as you walked block to block
In the homes, in the woods, in the sound
When I was seven I wrote about a boy who swam the entire Atlantic ocean because I thought children were capable of such things
Blossom petals on the sidewalks! I’m telling you, they’re fuckin’ everywhere!
Don’t
More, fuck ‘em, but cover your nose
Who?
They let this happen.
As if they could release us at any moment
Ford Tempo drive-arounds in the willow tree May light
You, and you, and you
Snare taps falling from gutters and light not seen since moving here
Just tell us how long
“before humanity loses its humanity?”
Sphynx has gone, no riddles for a while
Why? You get them all during the day.
No one
The sound of one car passing
Just tell us how long
Needle, needing thread