Monthly Archives: October 2013

uhms and aahs with hands in pockets shuffle feet, slightly slouching mumble, mumble something, something— i shouldn’t bother with intros unless i write them i should just read the goddamn poem

the leaves are falling on Madonna Drive Mission Hill’s in mist and I can’t see the cross at the top today   the old school house is locked looks like it stopped teaching long before this green was planted long before … Continue reading →

squatting on the hot sidewalk, feeling ripples in a sunny subdivision, the bored torturer melts ants with the magnifying glass— and pulls the rubber bumper off his sneaker

I remember rippin’ through the Rathole that yellow tunnel under twenty-two tracks 109th Street’s downtown rumble with two-way close contact the roar was muffler reverb pedestrians could get soaked a truck once took my sideview as the exhaust vapors hung … Continue reading →

sidewalk surfers ride over cracks no trouble pink chalk lines, gum— the hopscotch bubble twirling ropes singing double-dutch skipped —and my summer cone is chocolate dipped

marbles or jacks— the playing stops don’t step on that crack or you’ll break your mama’s back— and thrown away garbage gum is sticking to your flipflops