immortalized in a poem
My pal from poetry classes sent me a poem, wanna hear it/hear it goes….
GIFTS & SALVAGE
Central California
drains out of one
dry swamp
dub
KPOO
postcards from:
Kaikoura
Mystic Seaport
Chicago
on my desk
a salvaged
piece of
shelfwood
from
back when
Lumber and Wood
was on
Folsom and 23rd
holds my typer—
and a light
bought off a crackhead on Haight
on my bookshelf
a gift bottle of
napa valley
2002
the red
cast iron
US
MAIL
coin bank
was my
greatgrandfather’s
a LUCKY
STRIKE
chapbook
by toughguy
and red abalone
shells
full with
changecoin
toughguy
gimme the desk
too
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