windrag : poetry : journal

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Category: poem

ginger tea

the quietest evening in recent memory. you can hear the lightbulbs, like little campfires you weren’t prepared for this, and now you wonder if anyone will notice

ghosts

i woke up late and haven’t played the flute dreams of familiar people in un- familiar situations stole the morning i straighten my spine and go on

mid-terms

a warm spring night in town–the bare-midriffed college girls practice their english lessons on deaf and single-minded handlers outside the theater. the smirking crescent moon has seen it all before

privacy

sometimes you want to wear your underwear to bed [when the train passes, baying low, about a mile to the west] like a memory of hands it’s not a weakness. it’s faith

up early

flimsy sunglasses balancing on a cracked gourd a wristwatch wrapping the stub of a broomhandle day after day, who is it that brings me tea? a bathrobe, worn by a scarecrow