tinywords resumes publication, with a painting by Natalie d’Arbeloff
butterfly —
the way you leave
and come back
spring
is coming
one door
of the deli
is open
Street vendors
selling flowers
for other men’s wives
Five minutes before the alarm — birdsong, birdsong.
day at the park
picnic blankets blanketed
with cherry blossoms
spring scent of nothing burning
first thaw
pink petals
in the elevator
sprouting grasses —
deleting the contacts
i never call
I pause to watch
the moon riding the clouds
the boy tugs my hand
walking barefoot
in the mud
a young woman
carries the world
on her head