Our Paolo by Ray DeJesús

(photo from the Maggy poetry reading, November 2010)

An Enjoyable Neon  

                      -for Paul Violi

 

a Tareyton lit 

      an egg cream foam electrical
a warm  

 

       distance
talk of them

 

        stacks stacks of books
to purge later 

 

          a grin
to burn

 

& rocket 
          across

--  Ray DeJesús