Okinawa Dream

Two poems for the price of one!

Sleep in Motion
(or I occasionally fall asleep on the train from time to time)

Sleep in motion
Dream in movements
I fade into the car
Steam filling my lungs

To close my eyes
Wake closer to
And farther from my destination
A straight line where to where time suspends

Swept away imagines
Under the tunnels
Inside the ventricles of my dear city
Steady on to home

A voice says
This is...and says the stations name
Always a platform away
At the purposed hour

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You Have To Read This To Susie

In math I stare at
The back of your head
Waiting for a glimpse of your face
in profile

I think of you

And when we share a desk
In Home Ec.
Your knee bumps into mine
I shutter

How can I tell you this?

True, I am awkward
Not like the other boys who
Are much better at
Swim class

I know I don't talk much, I am
Scared of my own high mousey
Voice, I clam up when you're
Around

I hope you can forgive this

Were I to write this down on a
Piece of scrap paper using
Words I think I know
Will you be impressed?

Or will you just look at me like a
Man looks at a confused
Dog who has spent the day barking at
Himself in the mirror

Recess is starting soon. I'll see you then.

Crafts with Machete

Imagine that we meet

A party or a meeting

And are introduced by a friend

And you shake my hand

Imagine, in this meeting,

Where we shake hands and we lock

Eyes and we talk and

I make you laugh

Imagine now we meet again

At another party or on the subway

And you think me fondly

And we touch

Imagine, in that moment,

When we touch

Each hair on your neck stand up and

I say something honest

Will you love me then?