FROM A BOOK OF POETRY NOT A SPYCRAFT MANUAL

i read one day
in new orleans
chantilly rain
long long ago

learn to put your distress signals in code

& i rolled this over
every which way . . . 

until it popped

& i wondered aloud

to the river crossing

& the willows there -

does it mean maybe like singing the blues ?

~

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