Literature
A Woman Named Vivian
Amidst the swarm of strut-walks
the skeletons wear marigolds
two blue, a red, another blue.
Their bodies are filled with pockets
cigarettes, a bluebird, a strawberry filled doughnut.
Forget rotundity.
So much of what has soothed me has not been human.
I am the handmaiden of uncertainty
I'm not that kind of police officer, I'm a peace officer.
It's the middle names that get you,
early morning men,
too early for all this springing
step hand in hand as grown men in love.
The peanut man looks into the desolate lights of Baltimore
his doughy cheeks glow red
every mouth is busy in prayer.
You are a stag in the air, in every ovate le