Poem of the week

Since October 2011, I’ve been writing a poem per week and distributing it via email newsletter. Click on the link below to sign up. Spam-free poetry, once a week! Here’s the first poem that was sent to the list:

 
meaningful adjacency request

could i possibly be somewhere near you
forever and a day or more if that’s okay?

can i hide my face in your neck’s hollow
or else just stand next to you on a bus?

riding together for several happy stops,
with our shoulders barely touching at all

but somehow just there adjacent to each
other or parallel as two quiet city streets

that will never intersect but nevertheless
exist simultaneously on time-worn maps

could we be denizens of that dizzy grid?
our arms linked together just so, breezy?

i’d gladly register my body as a business
if only i knew where to file this request

 

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