monthly visitation with the flowers on Park Avenue

tonight i apologize

monthly visitation with the flowers on Park Avenue


tonight         I apologize for Tattooine and rhyme 
at the hour of parent-teacher events 
on the Upper East Side
I see there’s time for me but for them it’s long decided 

churchbells find me everywhere I go
and smoke from the wildfire chokes the shadow child
I can’t write this til I know you got hom…