Wednesday, August 10, 2022

KILLING TIME ON THE WEST SIDE OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Slow hawk, your cool
but deliberate 
wheeling 

through edgeless, 
haint blue
lap pools of sky—

untroubled
by the faint clangs 
of dissonant music 

flung up 
from our jagged, hectic 
neighborhoods below—

by and by, strikes me 
as the proximate 
reason 

why nobody 
misses a thing  
while they're dancing.