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



Loomis in the Rain ...

There is a billowing wind just outside the window –
The sideways rain scrapes the glass and collects on the frame’s exterior ledge.
Pulling back the curtains introduces a remarkable chill.
A cheek and a hand are pressed to the glass’s face.

The low-hanging grayness swirls and churns.
The cattails and tall reeds dance in the wetness.
Leopold the Insane speaks condescendingly,
But the water drop trails on the glass are perfect and never recreated.

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