Walking the Dog

this image comes to mind
staring at the begonias
and a slow smile creeps its way across my face.
we are sitting at a table in a restaurant
we have our serious
date face on
honestly I can't be sure if we are asking the typical questions
the picture is just so unbelievable to imagine
as if we would have serious faces

trying to imagine
how anything other than fumbling around you
and dropping in unexpectedly
would be
I trip over the curb
and am sprayed by the sprinkler I had barely noticed.

I shake it off continue back into the daydream
sloshing through sidewalk puddles
just to get back to you

there was a moment
when I was startled, I remember.
waking nervous...
that my head was really laying on a revolving track
with the moment you woke
being the shot gun sound
and you were off out of the gate.

surprised to find
I woke
and you asked me
what was wrong
holding me
so I could fall back into
my daydream
of reality

that moment lingers daily.

I am buying a vitamin water
near the train tracks
and a long low whistle
is rumbling past...
freight

i can not see what is in the containers
and yet
all of me wants to jump aboard.
I'm not fairing so well with heights
so I stay off to the side.
I think a little breeze will do me well

and besides
your still making faces
from across the table at the restaurant
and I am giddy with the embarrassment
of trying to be taken seriously.

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I love Brooklyn storms... they are so much more intense than out on the Island. They are so loud and forboding but afterwards it always feels like something new is occurring. Like we were all sitting here waiting for that. To remind us something better is headed for us. The lightning is literally flashing outside the window. The Thunder feels like a strong hand trying to tell me what I have already known. The rain just keeps me still. Calm in all of the fuss. A perfect moment to do a little more daydreaming.


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even with sleepy lids
serious words of relevance
and I take them in
put them in my pocket
revisit them
every moment I get.

what they will do for me I am not sure
there are never too many unexpected smiles in my day
so I keep them there
to remind me.