This is Not to Say

tangles of vermicelli

    on the top shelf

        and the sour celerystalks back

to back like paolo & francesca

    nothing else in

        the house -- you come

back from work early while

    I sleep a thousand

        kilometers away, pull back

one strand of hair behind

    your ear slowly not really

        seeing anything but that

winter's here and the

    icebox is oozing freon and

        needs washing -- this is not to

say you want anything

    because daybreak is here

        and the bed warming

in the oblique sun not to mention

    they're calling for snow

        this morning

a foot or so

     for every road

         in your city