transmission

i’m going over again the things i want to talk to you about
a new book new music a chapter I’ve just completed
a girl a dream a failure a yes
deep connections can absorb so much blackness
reflect love and warmth
love
i’d tell you about a girl
a conversation i had this morning over facetime
lovely charming beautiful and aged with toughness and grace
so much water under the bridge so much loss
and she listened
shared
traveled with me for thirty minutes or so
a time machine for the little boy who also dreamed
in first grade of becoming steve mcqueen
of chasing ali mcgraw into a comfortable hiding place
ruffles laughter and smells of blonde shampoo
so different so enticing so fast
she was the swiftest of all the first graders
i learned that she would only be caught
if she wanted to be
today
a
dream come approximately fifty years later
that’s determination optimism and poetry
a romantic yes
but hopeful this time
with a quiver full of poems silences and hope
anyway
that’s what i am sharing with you now
poetic transmission
aimed upwards

10-3-24

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