A Warm Day in Iowa

untitled ca. 19 x 17 cm - after a photograph by Susan Mitchell

A WARM DAY IN IOWA

(miles and miles of corn)

listening to the irritating squeak

of the porch swing

swing to Mingus and Miles

Davis in daylight savings time, the swishing

of sprinklers bending backwards

then forwards

skinned knees, suburban malaise

(which is just being tired of things)

and a surprising amount of similar nonsense

in a limited, coffee table edition

printed by Oxnard Press.

Can the fridge

still be plundered of midnight victuals? She laughs, then writes

“I am leane with seeing others eate.”

Then:

“This is the time of the assassins.”

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