<p class="epil"><em>after Amichai</em></p>
<div class="line">If, just once, we could&#8217;ve made</div>
<div class="line">a flying machine, or at least</div>
<div class="line">a winged creature of some kind,</div>
<div class="line">gilded light as a kite over that</div>
<div class="line">dark spine of mountain beyond</div>
<div class="line">our bedroom window or even</div>
<div class="line">floated like shadowy zeppelins</div>
<div class="line">along our candlelit walls … But</div>
<div class="line">whenever we tried we fell deeper</div>
<div class="line">into the black hole of our bodies,</div>
<div class="line">became spiders, beetles, worms,</div>
<div class="line">rootbound things burrowing</div>
<div class="line">inside the belly of earth, hungry.</div>
<div class="line">No, even our best design—the one</div>
<div class="line">we kept coming back to—looked</div>
<div class="line">more like a grasshopper than</div>
<div class="line">a bird. Still, for almost an hour,</div>
<div class="line">we could be happy like that, bounc-</div>
<div class="line">ing from shoot to shoot, my thigh</div>
<div class="line">rubbing madly against yours, now</div>
<div class="line">and then a sound rising, a high note</div>
<div class="line">made of friction, a cricket-like song.</div>


Asterisks

An Incomplete List of Places I Have Breastfed My Second Child

Almost Flying

<div class="line">Before God or light. When my name was still</div>
<div class="line">a riddle buzzing inside my father’s head</div>
<div class="line">and rainbows only streamed thru my dreams.</div>
<div class="line">There was black. Me in a black sack, in a belly,</div>
<div class="line">a body, a home. Or out walking, bouncing up</div>
<div class="line">and down like a beach ball in the dark.</div>
<div class="line">Black hole, black hole, in an unborn soul,</div>
<div class="line">even my hunger was filled with shadows,</div>
<div class="line">gray shapes in the unlit bathroom where</div>
<div class="line">my mother hid from our violent tenement,</div>
<div class="line">sang &#8220;Rock-a-bye-baby&#8221; to keep me safe. Inside.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Black was the soft fur outside my bedroom window,</div>
<div class="line">the moon sliced in half by a telephone pole,</div>
<div class="line">black’s panther eye. Black, the pocket of sleep</div>
<div class="line">I slipped inside to wake like a lost penny,</div>
<div class="line">the dark, glittering glass four stories over</div>
<div class="line">Brooklyn where my nude boy’s body turned wild.</div>
<div class="line">I was the blue-black eagle, the coal-black bear,</div>
<div class="line">the luminous, ice-black oak. My arms reaching out</div>
<div class="line">to touch streetlights or stars became translucent branches,</div>
<div class="line">my palms gathered voices like rain—Puerto Rican,</div>
<div class="line">Italian, Colored, tire whines and horn barks,</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">steel squeals from the El grinding up King’s Highway,</div>
<div class="line">sound rushing up thru the night’s roots into</div>
<div class="line">my heart, beating against me like a black drum</div>
<div class="line">till I opened my mouth and learned to sing.</div>


On Hitting 70

Channel 37

Black

<div class="line">I know there were other colors in my early years—</div>
<div class="line">yellow daisies wallpapering the kitchen walls,</div>
<div class="line">blue fish swimming across my bedroom ceiling—</div>
<div class="line">but what I remember most about my youth</div>
<div class="line">are the many shades of red. Ruddy-red</div>
<div class="line">my father’s cheeks as he bent to give me</div>
<div class="line">a sip of beer. Crimson-red my mother’s face</div>
<div class="line">stained by his palms. Burnt-red my brother’s ass</div>
<div class="line">welted from the belt. Blood-red drops</div>
<div class="line">on the bathroom floor. Fiery-red words</div>
<div class="line">raging thru the Brooklyn project halls.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Even after we left New York, a red shadow followed us.</div>
<div class="line">It shaded my Uncle’s eyes as he met us</div>
<div class="line">in Los Angeles, the dark-red of depression,</div>
<div class="line">the black-red of his future suicide. As I got older,</div>
<div class="line">I began to crave red like chocolate, became lost</div>
<div class="line">without it. I smeared it on high school noses</div>
<div class="line">with my fists, raced thru suburban streets in</div>
<div class="line">fire-red cars, chased women wearing hot-red</div>
<div class="line">dresses, fought Asian-red enemies in Vietnam.</div>
<div class="line">White days I lit on fire. Black nights</div>
<div class="line">I opened the veins in my eyes.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line"><em>Red sun in the morning, red moon in the evening,</em></div>
<div class="line">red flames igniting every day I survived.</div>


History of a Body

Life Partner

<div class="line">Sam says he comes to get away from</div>
<div class="line">the missus, a few hours gazing into</div>
<div class="line">the sea’s gold scales and he’s gone, not</div>
<div class="line">even her all-night binges can pull him</div>
<div class="line">back for a week or two. José brings his</div>
<div class="line">whole family and tells me, in Spanish,</div>
<div class="line">they can smell El Salvador in the blue</div>
<div class="line">salt wind. Alma, his <em>esposa</em>, who &#8220;don like</div>
<div class="line">the fish,&#8221; hands out burritos and café,</div>
<div class="line">and later, <em>las dulces</em> made from cactus.</div>
<div class="line">Pedro, his oldest, learns how to set an</div>
<div class="line">anchovy head on a hook. I come alone,</div>
<div class="line">bring my long pole and a unfinished song,</div>
<div class="line">leave the books behind. Enough to read</div>
<div class="line">the wind on the sea the way Aunt Elsie</div>
<div class="line">read my palm when I was a boy. Words</div>
<div class="line">don’t tell much anyway. To know the bones</div>
<div class="line">of a thing you have to go down deep, down</div>
<div class="line">to where the seagrass roots and even debris—</div>
<div class="line">a coke can, a boot, a purse—can be a crab’s</div>
<div class="line">nest or a trap. You have to love going home</div>
<div class="line">with your burlap empty, clouds no longer</div>
<div class="line">clouds but white lilies bobbing in the sky,</div>
<div class="line">the music inside the words sounding</div>
<div class="line">thru you head. I open my palms. Catch</div>
<div class="line">whatever I can. Whistle to lure my song.</div>


Mark Zuckerberg and i

Chasing Home

Fishing at Hermosa Pier

<p>Perhaps merely the idea of whiteness draws us,<br />
the way the white lines, the fissures of ice,<br />
the made structure itself disappears inside</p>
<p>the silent depths. Or perhaps the way the wind<br />
dies down to a muffled growl as we slip inside<br />
the white skin of bear, the belly of the moon.</p>
<p>Or the way we are left then with only language,<br />
our voices heard in the white dome of the cosmos,<br />
our stories flickering in the fire; left with merely</p>
<p>these shadows written on the walls of snow.<br />
Here, the trick of permanence. There, the illusion<br />
of stilled water, the gift of holding river and storm</p>
<p>quiet in the rough texture of our hands. No day<br />
now. No night. The vast turquoise sky not changing<br />
to a black mask pricked with eyes. Out of the flames</p>
<p>gods come, spirits, ghosts bearing visions and<br />
old battles. Out of the white nothing, we create<br />
the living light, the universe of blood, a new world.</p>


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