Autogeography: Poems

The City Without You

35 The City WithoutYou I Thunderstorm and early morning Rain Wind a drunken boarder who’s lost his keys, rattling the windows. The wrong house. II Bustling streets continue bustling. Shining towers continue to be named. Traffic lights continue lighting, treadmill red to green: The city, continuing. III “Settled” the way a house is settled into its foundations IV streets continue names continue lights continue 36 V Haunted by damp rhyming A hovering of wings distant violins An ancient buzz of bees Honeysuckle bristling on the tongue Bouquet of ashes worrying the nose VI Continue Continue Continue Continue VII The Differed Music: caress of whispers weight of razored sleep veiled glimpse of song O sweetest rain wash the night from me 37 VIII Continue con tin contain con tune you c — — — — IX Won’t be fingers Won’t be heartbeat Won’t be sense Won’t be city Won’t be Won’t be Won’t be ...