keys? - check
wallet? – check
cellphone? check
doors and windows locked? check
lights on for the dogs? check
love? love???
now where did I put that?
I know I had it two days before
may have used it yesterday
ah I know it was with Gracie
right after breakfast this morning
left it on her belly while she slept
there it is OK honey
Ready to go!
gaze at every single face you see you’ve probably heard that God masquerades as all these characters waitress bank teller homeless husband mother friend son using one eye like an impotent spy He wa
the ones I seek for welcome shadows open their doors arms folded no greeting life can be cruel the train or subway squealing to a stop scaring the baby in mother’s arms or subtler the wound no on
These cobbled stones once rough and gray lie obsidian smooth and silent as I stride uphill in dim doorways tips of cigarettes dot the shadows a dog’s breath strays onto my heel inside a torch sears