scene from a boston street car (working title)

by Jukebox Graduate

Posted to Poetry on 2003-07-17 19:44:00

Watching
On a late uptown b train
Her on the seat in front of him
Turned around
Chin resting
on loosely folded
Freckled arms wearing
A blue 99 cent thrift store t-shirt

That must have covered
The white soft shoulders
Carl Sandburg must have meant

Watching
Hair
Seeming thrown
by a wind all her own
and the unruly black strands
tucked behind her left ear

that was catching
as I was

Watching
Him speak words

Watching
Her laugh

Watching
like a homeless man palming

Some
Beautiful
useless
Foreign coin





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