Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks June 2015 (Concrete Nature) | Page 5

Times Square John Collins the loneliness of chaos wandering, searching for a sense of you green shirt, wet lips your eyes, we meet car rides into the city bring memories swarming at every intersection how desperate my stay without you even for the briefest time a glass of water, minerals with ice you hold firm as i lay trapped beneath you times square at midnight we will do it all again, if only a block or two how pitiful my departure if i cannot see your face disappear beyond a crowd once more you think this is misery it is elation and it is joy and this is why we rise 5