26 august          7:15          orinda, california

it's 3:15 somewhere
but not here
nude realism prevails
breasts different sizes
something's almost over
almost something's begun
what is a participle & why
did you say tomorrow or tomorrow
clouds alternately provide
horizon or erase horizon
alternation in distinct depths
of pillowy white intimacy
telephone, computer, this might
be the first time & then
not air traffic control
that other thing people seem
to do & do to seem privy
to what there might be to be
privy to which is not something
one should too easily say which is
about the clouds having gauzed
into bare screens for the limpid
attempting blue to seep, slip, bleed
through to silhouette atop the 1981
stereo four round mints
from tom's diner on washington ave
(2 eggs home fries & toast $2.50)
& a cork-necked slim bottle of lemon
liqueur from somewhere in italy
i've never been.