HOME AGAIN

Where I used to be

I could hear the sea.

The black ragged palm fronds flung themselves against the twilight sky.

The moon stared up from the water like a fish's eye.

I had the loneliness that sings.

It made me light and gave me wings.

Is it the dust and the iron railings and the blank red brick

That makes me sick?

There is no space to be lonely any more

And crumbling feet on a city street

Sound past the door.