I want someone to look at me

and tell me

There

you will be happy

right There

palm spread across my chest

my heart beating under finger

tips

Bernie Rally in Prospect Park/A to Maine

I saw two car crashes this morning
one right in front of my eyes
car hoods crumpling like paper fists
our love will die
one car spinning outward
slowly in a circle
hitting a rock on the side of its trajectory
it was already too broken
it didn't seem to care
our love will perish--we hope--simultaneously
when the arc came to a close
the driver pushed out his door
he started yelling about a red light
he seemed to be saying:
you hurt me, and this is your fault
exempting himself from blame
the other man's door was smoking so much
I couldn't hear his voice
our love will dissipate
amid the fumes

Earth day concert @ the Silent Barn

I'm afraid
I will forget
moments like these

earnest thanks
for my
attendance

feeling music
make me
bop

watching
smoke rings
emanate
from people's
lips

like upside down
waterfalls

tell me what i should do
because i am at a loss for what it is that i want
to disappear under warm water
and learn to breathe without breath
to understand all the things that i don't
in the curve of a shell
and the scraping of sand against my back
to live in solitude
on an island for a period of time i was
obsessed with those books i could never
put one down i just wanted to know how it would
be to be that isolated i sol ation
yesterday morning I woke up at six am and watched
the sun curve on the other side of the rocky mountains illuminating
them until they got brighter and brighter
and i talked to a girl from louisiana with family out the wazoo
and a future that i knew was bright and i said to her
you will do well anywhere and i looked at her and i meant it
and i want to be able to say that to myself
to close my eyes to meditate on an answer
and emerge dripping
with one thing
on my
mind