.

My grandmother's piano has outlived her,
Silently waiting for nothing.
In its mirror finish I can see the future
like the wavy sky in a puddle.

A sun shower beats down on the front steps in unpredictable rhythms;
All this rain fell out of nowhere.

And that puddle mixes in with the river and is gone.

.

Rachel sleeps through the thunder
I hope she doesn't remember what I said
well enough to repeat it outside of a dream

I spend thirty seconds falling into my stomach
Waiting for her blanket to rise and fall.

.

I've never been here -- here beneath the Ronzoni pasta
or at least this Ronzoni pasta,
the one Rachel picked from the store
after looking around.

.

The sunflower petals reach out like you do,
stretching your arms on the bedside,
the first whispers of yellow light crossing your face,
hair pressed on your cheek
one strand stuck where your lips press together.
You say something.
I bring my mouth to yours.
morning, don't think about the day.

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The morning came.
I'm late before I open my eyes

When did I eat last?
yesterday?
--No, there was that bread this morning
and then coffee in the office.

O moon,
I don't want to be a mad hatter in a black streak forever.

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They crow at seven
in late summer
While the North sleeps
under clouds and half orange leaves.

And mist,
like breath, rises
over a deer-spotted pasture,
where tall grass wet and bowed
rocks on its heels

And the fawn hidden in pacasandra,
asleep beneath a sleeping willow,
dreams of clover,
three leaved and green.

New York drifts by easily.
                     Her Westchester lawns with Spanish curse
words rising from the cut grass;
                     Secret woods layered in ancient green,
covering streams and wood bridges left to moss;
                    Stray dog tramping towards the shade
with a matted coat and wide smile

O city, cobbled and silver,
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