Alex Dimitrov
How again after months there is awe.
The most personal moment of the day
appears unannounced. People wear leather.
People refuse to die. There are strangers
who look like they could know your name.
And the smell of a bar on a cold night,
or the sound of traffic as it follows you home.
Sirens. Parties. How balconies hold us.
Whatever enough is, it hasn't arrived.
And on some dead afternoon
when you'll likely forget this,
as you browse through the vintage
again and again—there it is,
what everyone's given up
just to stay here. Jeweled hairpins,
scratched records, their fast youth.
Everything they've given up
to stay here and find more.
from the book LOVE AND OTHER POEMS / Copper Canyon Press
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