The city and its health
restaurants reach
beyond my balcony
on a
Wednesday night.
Dinner was quick
but the dining
was slow. My two
gay friends
compared notes.
I tried to focus the talk
on my ring. Purposely not
a diamond, half-size
edge of a
ring. My display case
for solidarity.
The entrance to our
apartment will display
the photo hung above
my bedroom couch. And
below, a row
of plants in red,
clay pots.
Loneliness is
hesitating on the Christmas
email way past the
New Year. An entire
book of poems in
one repeated moment.
Written 2008