To: Avenue D & East Seventh Street
New York, NY 10009
From: Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes
When an eastward road
is your walkabout
these stacked houses
with green faces
red mouths you imagine
knocking
and vines you climb
to reach the window
through which you thought you lived
An admiring glance
at the something
that’s never yours
those far away stone steps
leading to the lock that
unclicks you
the door that enters
your ideas
when it was the you who wished to enter
An afternoon of space
when suddenly there’s nowhere
for your shoes to
land
inside your schedule
except this wandering
alphabet calendar
of avenues
losing its leaves
Email Maxine at [email protected].
