Remember Me As a Time of Day
heartbreak is a fixture of the landscape like these unbuttoned doors, these streetlamps over bent pavement, glittering, emitting heat with covers pushed to the floor there is nothing lonelier than an air conditioning unit (5,000 BTUs) or a chain lock and the space between the door and the frameheartbreakis so steep you don’t really race up to it those men ringing the buzzer (no soliciting) a motion of crossing the street (heartbreak) is imminent against the window against the light I want you here now with me to do dangerous things: salt flats, salt mines, diamonds since heartbreak is the opposite of acrylic is dawn over a bridge (rusted, impassable) Carroll Street Verrazano Kosciuszko the river rises to the promenade after heavy rains, the bright sky cooing into the night, flying home, roosting like music in the Anchorage, like music echoing everywhere we went whether we stay or go heartbreak is an option Verrazano himself was killed and eaten by natives of Guadeloupe or executed for piracy in Spain: heartbreak is not always a linear progression