monthly visitation with the flowers on Park Avenue
tonight i apologize
monthly visitation with the flowers on Park Avenue
tonight I apologize to them for Tattooine
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
when church bells blare everywhere I go
and smoke from wildfire chokes the shadow child
I can’t write until I know they're safe
when the bl…