THE HIDDEN TRACK

The following passages are dedicated to Leopold, to the vernacular, to certain evil women (you know who you are), to certain wonderful people(they know who they are), to soft afternoons and quiet Sunday evenings, to Fall and seeing your breath for the first time since Spring, and to Isabelle Ya Feng ... a soul slipped by like two ships passing in the still, moonlit sea.
-- Abraham Ahmed, the Surfing Beatnik



The Decay...

Red skies swell with painted clouds of purple and gray.
Her dress, white and fragile, brushes against the kitchen table leg.
The falling sun projects the window's outline onto the far wall.
I drink a coffee, and she reads aloud from a book about Yeats.

Life outside levels and settles, readied for dusk.
The table throbs in rhythm with her foot bouncing as she speaks.
Debussy plays; a page turns; a boy outside calls for his dad.
Fiery is the sky with its assurances that IT will exist long after the above has decayed.

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