Thursday, August 16, 2018

homecoming

i been starved of home
the goldenrod cobs under vast expanses of silence
cicadas and quiet air humming around sidewalk greetings

the rhythm of the predictable bounty of backyard tomatoes
and hungry rabbits

the honor system at the vegetable stand down the street
with an intact paint-peeled wooden money box
whose padlock would be long since desecrated in my new city

home hasn't aged the same way my skin, my soul, my eyes have this last decade away

the salt on my lip, that flavor from childhood
just ain't the same anywhere else

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