[everyone carefully studying for tomorrow]

everyone carefully studying for tomorrow

the heroes and victims

all walking away from the old apologies burning

in a trash barrel a worm in an apple breathes

November should apologize for itself

it is not November I’m hot and there’s the testimony

the neckline

of a purple iris the pressure of beauty

as if all were tousled and an expectation

is the belief that something will happen

a dream is a life downed

for a time awake and now rising