Drinking from Puddles


late sun peek-a-boo with paint-by-number

scenes scrolling up into powder blue lid of something totally

blank

so as not to

lose track of my own particular latitude & longitude


My fortune read “A joyful reunion awaits

your arrival”

it seemed rather

ominous


whereas nothing rattles lose from the approaching

dark but some

grains of sand maybe


stars


in another life