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last poem in the series...

4/7/2020

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freeways: pandemic poem #10
for amy

i made it through oakland
in minutes
racing the freeway
arcing the lake
looping back past the bay
pulling the reins in hard
to halt at my corner.

traffic is a thing of the past
back when i wore slacks
and went to lunch
and had more to do
than just pick up my medicine
and hurry home.

i don’t see anyone on my street
either: usually
the high school kids
would be tossing wrappers in my bushes
jaywalking extravagantly
away from my disapproval.

it’s quiet here
in the after.
but then
unexpectedly
you call,
and even more unexpectedly
i call back.

there might be space
here in this great sudden
emptiness
for conversations
about losing
and what comes after:
wouldn’t we all like to know
what comes after?

i think it might be the
truest thing
i ever said:
which was i love you.
that’s
what’s left
here at the end
of all the empty roads,
the coiling freeways that
sped us back home.
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four more weeks sheltering

4/2/2020

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four more weeks sheltering: pandemic poem #7

the strings of emails
the tasks accomplished
the drafts
the submissions
the hours billed:

none of it adds up
to one room full of laughter,
one walk grazing shoulders,
one knee to knee
strategy session.

can i talk to you
through the fence
i asked
thinking it might keep me
from breaking.

i now have weeks
of lists and jokes,
terrors and dreams and
things i had wanted to ask
backed up behind
a polite fine:
this dam threatening
cracks.

i can’t wait til it breaks:
beware the obsessive
love notes
and messages marked
question
a giant
earnest wave
wrestling the mud and rocks
all the way
to the ocean.

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