Old Habits, New Faces

Memories from before I had a right to them...

Their eyes pass
in different directions but

they smile, they turn
their faces to the sky.




I have a tendency to be nostalgic for events that have already happened to other people.

"Poet's Work"

Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade

I learned
to sit at desk
and condense

No layoff
from this
condensery.

-Lorine Niedecker