like
garlic and Earth Balance over warm rotini
the key changes in Stevie’s “Summer Soft”
flowers on the window sill (our window sill)
Roland Orzabal’s guitar solo on
”Everybody Wants To Rule The World”
miso ramen with white pepper and sprouts
eaten at the bar where everyone is sweating
sembe and a cold bottle of green tea
Levon Helm’s drum crescendo on the final verse of
”The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
from The Last Waltz
when my kids get tired at night and forget
they’re too cool to hug me
the chorus of “Go All The Way” by the Raspberries
heard while watching someone stuff artisanal Twinkies
in a Park Slope bakery (I know, I know)
in bed, playing Chrono Trigger, one of us for the first time
and the other, well, not for the first time
at the table (taken from 24 Packard) talking politics
while Paul Robeson sings “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
sitting on the cushion with the rain falling outside
and the Japanese temple incense filling the room
when you said, “I want you in my life for a very long time”
2 April 2012
Brooklyn NY
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It’s National Poetry Writing Month! A poem a day, each day in April.
