Poetry
I remove the day, strip myself / of the expectations and the pain, / the way my soul strives and my flesh endures
They took two buses to get there. / Rosalia wouldn’t speak, just cradled the little suit / until Ruben gently took it away from her.
She wondered what would happen / to her actual face. Would it fade away? Or would it / stay put, like a person you can never get rid of
My mother’s old kimono cradles me / so that I can become a fish, wet with / water I can drape about my shoulders.
Make for the moment / the moon in its place / And lie quickly beneath to remember.
Beside the door, / a pair of shoes, an umbrella, your black coat, things in minutes / you will no longer need
There will be a worse day. He will live / long enough to not recognize me at all, / and I sense it drawing nearer…
You toss a pale bagel onto his plate, / do some hand-waving around / the problem of gravity.