Breakfast Meeting

As an afterthought I can consider the present

Skylines and curved highways

Cliffhangings in real time and real

Realtime

Consumed while I am young

I lack nothing and want

Everything

Alone

Lonely please allow me to

Please be

Lonely

Let me see the city as collosal and ancient

Let my nights fall silent and sleepless

Into the city’s whole morning call

So unimportant that only the breath remains

I awake

To speak

Back

To speak

This is the only way I know

Written 2004

A shot of what’s left on my bookshelves. Needless to say, the

I hiked Point Lobos National Park, just south of Monterey, California, last

From Ginosko Literary Journal’s 12th Edition. To read the complete poem, download