It’s muggy here, inviting sluggishness, there’s not enough boxes to pack anyway, decisions can be made in a week, a few days, there’s no need for reaching, grasping, the breeze moves me, that’s all. Outside the kid from upstairs is doing soccer drills, first touch and quibbling about fairness. Even here the grass is starting to yellow. His feet beat the ball like a drum, ready to put it in the net, the goal of […]
Last night brought the hills in close, late afternoon and they’re back in place. The lake looks deep, scored by whitecaps and racing boats. Finally the deck is in the shade, and it’s almost time to leave. Would that I could bottle a place, could stay to watch the bats drop out of a nearly empty sky just one more time, to stay up late and sit outside as the landscape gives off radiant heat […]
Mostly overcast, and how. Where have the colors gone, the spark of early summer giving way to heat-bleached tones. Or maybe it’s me, lost in dreams as deadlines approach, lured by drama on the pitch and grand scale emotions, like the moths to the lamp outside the garage door, to bright lights, to easy escape, a vida em outras línguas, the eternal promise of somewhere else.
OPTIONAL POETRY 