Figures of Travel

Corollary to the phenomenon of looking familiar to strangers:
the language which escapes you in one country haunts you in
another.

Lip reads uninterpretable speech for clues. Whether you are
in her seat or fine where you are.

Cherry trees along the tracks adumbrate platforms.

Clucking increases among those leaving the subway
through the long corridor
as the number of closed, dripping
umbrellas increases
among those coming in.

Too crowded to move, I am fascinated
at the strangeness of a young man masturbating
against me.