After the daffodils, the dandelions. Close behind, bluebells, stitchwort, and then the wild garlic, galaxies of white stars in dark woods, before the lanes are lined with cow parsley lace. I feel so lucky to mark off the weeks by the passing blooms, telling the time with flowers.
Life is like this now, a constant balance. Chaos is not allowed and there is never calamity, at least not that which can be brought through the front door
who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the brilliant Spaniard to converse about America and Eternity, a hopeless task, and so took ship to Africa,
Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light, sun and moon and tree vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn, ashcan