How does pavement rumble?
Ungratefully.
With the weight of shopping
carts and armies of situations
embellished into fire-
work chapters in
a peach-tinged city’s
drab catalog
Brace your quill
against
autumn outer edges, patch
your good eye with the
ink-
blot test of a recycled
new
morning, How does
sleep come (sweetly
to neighbors)? A mish-
mash of condescension, humility,
indecision in grocery store aisles, Crush
your homeward stumbles into bathroom
tiles
Revisit birthday
party
stills in Benadryl
closet near-waking
apprehensions, pleas bringing
harmonies
to monsoon-kissed
countries, strings tuned
to precise scale
degrees dampened
A lesson in coming to
prominence, load eyelids from
the ground
up
How does the quiet grow and
lessen pumpkin pie
sonics, singing transcontinental
feline promises,
ringing like the re-
fusal of secondary
dominants
to resolve
to the tonic?
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