out of the darkness

up the incline
away home
the clank & shudder
in a cooling cloudy
afternoon.

up & up
& over
up & up


there's a level spot
an apex
an acme of up
a gravitational pause

& it pulls slowly down
the tracks

down

sun sets into dark

the day is beautiful.
dont need to close yr coat
or earmuffs.

tonight's low is forecast
at 47 degrees.
luxurious.

i'm still wearing long johns
b.c i wore them
the last sevral days
in these very pants.

gd for the deep freeze
of days ago.

slow roll turn the dogleg
from broadway to bridge.
pass another train.

sun sets south. west.
haze over late afternoon city.
skyline cuts black against
jersey's sky beyond.

another train passes.
color of the lights compliments
the color of water
the color of sky reflected.

trees of skeletals
of east river
park cut lines
another train passes.

the descent
sun lights bricks
the sky is
light against cold
into what lies under dark
into dark

leaves fly a spiral library in an unlettered sky.

words, words. how easily they can destroy. words, words. how ?
words, words. how easily the can follow words. words, words.
words, words. 1/2 price sale just in time for time. words, words.
halfoff words to stand in for unwritten words. how easily they
may be substituted. word for word. words, words. how they say
how to build. a low-cost library. words, words. layers upon
layers upon. layers upon. layers upon. words, words. in for
words. information. indication. separation. combination.
words, words. how easily they mention. how easily they make.
how easily they mistake. words, words. how easily words are made.
palimpset comprised of gathered leaves laid together. words.
words, words. overwritten. underwritten. subtext. pretext.
overwritten. underwritten. context. contact. supertext. words,
words, words, words. names that define. sounds that mean. words.
sounds that mean words. words that mean sounds. words, words.
how? how easily do they destroy? how easily do they create?
how easily do they confuse? fragile pressed leaves in cracking
bindings. skins that hold thoughts in. time is laid in lines
followed by eyes like words across these. words, words, words.
how? how easily the eyes recognize the lay of the lines. words.
who or why or how? words? when? what? how? words, words. how?
paperbound. overwritten. underwoven. palimpsest. sins with skins
with words within. words, words. how easily they stray/
words, words. how easily they say riddle ghose renaissance.
original leaves in verso. bound bridges braided together. words
words, words. leaves in veins bound in skins that hold thoughts
in. words, words. system of sliding eyes for meaning across
sections of thought. words, words. leaves bound in trees.
ink still wet. leaves in trees drip dry. leaves cut down
& bound. leatherbound. weatherbound. paperbound. waterbound.
featherbound. leafbound. skybound. words, words, words, words.
how easily they sail. fail. tail. leaves blown by wind.
wound by sound. covers of lights. leaves blown by wind. words
bound for eyes or hearts or veins or pains or leaves turned
by hands. words, words. leaves blown by wind sail meaning
crosst an unlettered sky. leaves blown by wind form a swirling library
like a lexical garden. leaves blown in a spiral library
on shelves of birds. words, words. leaves blown in a spiral
library on shelves of birds in an unlettered sky. words, words.
leaves in a muslin bag bound with a bit of silk string.
words, words. freed from a prison by a bell to fly. words, words.
leaves blown in a spiral library on shelves of birds in an un-
lettered sky. words, words. how easily they fly. words, words.
leaves drip from trees & color puddles exciting things. words
drop colors that mean well. words, words. leaves fly
a spiral library on shelves of birds in an unlettered sky. words
mixtures of words form species of leaves. words, words, words.
a beauty made by words. bound in leathery leaves. pressed to-
gether in volumes of smooth skies. words, words. how easily
words, words. how easily they change. how easily they move.
how easily they fly. leaves blown by wind. leaves fly
a spiral library on shelves of birds in an unlettered sky.
words in palimpsest over simpler leaves scraped from ancient trees.
words in palimpsest inscribed between the lines of an unknown
tongue. words, words. leaves blown by wind in spiral libraries
on shelves of birds in an unlettered sky. leaves fly a spiral
library on shelves of birds in an unlettered sky.

completely dark by now

up the bridge.

what you can see
out the window
is the lights of things.

if you shade yr eyes
you can see
shapes of things in the night.

it's cold out there.

colder still.
these teens cut thru
such as shoes & coats
& multiple multicolored scarves
& extra sweaters
& the long cold night

what's out there?

what's out there
is driven by confusion.

the cold of needles & knives

enter a new year
the days, they claim,
are getting longer.
it must be hell to work a job
that keeps you in
all the sun's waking winter hours.

happy becomes necessity
& what then?

waiting on an elevated platform
in 17 degree weather
is the cold of knives & needles.

sun sets in a west
that seems more south
oranges & reds
burn deep to the horizon
on stratus clouds.

faroff bridges mark angles
the east river & bay beyond
are the cold color
of the highways & sky.
time without clouds
makes cold deeper.

train slants down'ard
bldgs cut black icy silhouettes
against the sinking sky.
the cold of knives & needles
cuts shapes out of an icy sky.

bricks hold tighter together
& if they were struck
by a wrecking ball
they'd explode
in cold.

reminiscent of a lingering past

reminiscent of a lingering past
further dwn the pike
the train where the sun shines in
warmer than late
an EMT with an apparently snappy dog
both in vests
diagnoses a man
with a chest pain

-do you need medical attention?
-no
-might be the coffee. what'd you eat? dont worry i'm also an EMT

he is serious & full of focus
solid
but of what?

an old man tries to pet his dachsund.
the EMT jerks it away

-no no no

that focus.
the EMT turns back to the man

-you pulled a muscle

the man in pain
is middle age, sketchy black moustache
an unhappy cast to his pained face
i think the EMT is keeping his ye on me
keeping my eye on him.

i dont mind a cellphone conversation in spanish
i never even rally lookt
at the overly stylish girls
with nice boots
standing in front of me.

rhythm in the kitchen

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