September 2011
2 posts
Observation, 9/7/11
There’s a big rambling group of blackkids out of school for the day, shambling down the hill, hoodied and longpanted in cover of September coldfront faux-fall. Laugh it up and grabass, guys—there’s a crisp in the air and you could even convince yourself the leaves are changing but that’s only wishful thinking—it’s only latesummer drought and the green leaves crackle with dehydration, like early...
North Highland Rainscape
In foursquare rooms
they’ve cordoned off
the walls
and heat oozing
from the windows
drips the skin
like watertorture
and coaxed from
the rooms by threat
of watertorture,
we enter streets
rendered warlike-
-flooded sewers
potholes
the uncaring filth-
-travesties-
streets no better
than foursquare rooms
only more open
more per-square-foot
helpless shrugs
ancient glittering
STOP...
