After Reading Your Letter

Sprawling Commonwealth Avenue

doesn’t feel so far from home

Those cities will embrace
your arrival with a fanfare
of footsteps, people pass by
without knowing your name
but something in the way
you hold your shoulders
and step in rhythm
with the pigeons

will make them turn
for half of one
second,
screwing their eyebrows
together to combat
the sun behind your head
because they think

‘Maybe I sat across from him
in a library once’
or
‘held open the door
at a deli’

its not true
your face
is new.

They remember
the feeling
of waking up
just before the alarm
or seeing the sun
set between the skyscrapers
and thinking about redwoods,
or having lunch
alone
happily.

all of this in the buttons
of your sweater.
I too have heard about
Allah
and
¡Ole!

The tribes used to chant it
in the desert during dances,
if one mover began to spin
out of his control
and into the divine’s.
The body became a vessel
and they would sing
ALLAH
because he was dancing
before them.

and when the bull fighters
cheated death
it was only god
flaunting,
their Moorish tongues
would cry
¡Ole!
so much more.
those dancers and dodgers
are just rainbows
when the truth is –
light is all around
us.

Let’s not wait
for the rain to fracture
it
Let’s not wait
for the conditions to break
the realm of belief.

Look around you
in wonder
its there

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