this is the answer to nostalgia
with title taken from Hala Alyan
what it must mean / that someone lost their kicks to the telephone wire / or was it relinquishment? / was it banishment? / were they freighted by birds? / was it the good dead who had since then died? / ghostly air jordans / my dead were not yet dead in those days / see: the beak of the granite bridge that birthed me / but was neither granite / nor life-giving / embankment of concrete / spandrel arch / striated with memorial tags / always so incidental / in the foreground of all my photos / the sex toy shop that shuttered its doors / to the eventuality of time / the pit bull shredded by coyotes / the graffiti rabbits and all my favored taco shops / the coin laundromat / and with it, reams of quarters / rolled in paper / I thought / isn’t it better to whip our coins / at water / that will act upon us / and answer our prayers?… Read the rest