Found Poetry

All you want is the world

So take it

Take it in your delicate fingertips

Take it in grasping handfuls and hungry bites

Remember your ancestors took this world unfairly

Remember your ancestors being forced off their own land

You are unique

Look around the world

Want the world

And seize it

And give it freely

Give it in the name of your ancestors who took unfairly

Give it in the name of your ancestors who were taken from

Give it to all the people of the world

All your people

Your people saved and wild

I'd like to fuck you in the dark

For a long time,
I only wanted to fuck you with the light on.
I like to look at your face,
Your eyes, your arms.
I am in love with the way you bite your lip when trying not to call out.
I am in love with the freckles starring constellations across your shoulders.

A few weeks ago, you asked to fuck me in the dark.
You told me you like to feel me.
At the time I didn't understand what you meant.

But tonight
Tonight I lead a dozen school children in a night hike
Tonight every detail of every tree popped out at me.
Tonight the stars of the milky way were pinpoints of sensation across my skin
And I think I understood
Why you'd like to fuck in the dark.

Today it rained

New York city is concrete and granite. Basalt  and sidewalk. Sometimes the rain falls and it doesn't know where to go. There is no comforting green to welcome it home but hard pavement and unrepentant, undulating car tires.
The water panics. It can't go anywhere. It rushes the water treatment plant in howling whirlpools and frantic waves. It flings itsself into New York Bay and brings the filth of the city with it.