sitting here,
1:46 a.m.,
drunk on poetry
and sleep,
hoping for a
mailbomb of poems,
from God
or myself
or you,
to go off in my hands.
my pockets are
empty and lonely;
except for my shadow.
the sky is
empty and lonely;
except for the stars.
and the pickled moon
spreads through
the window
to the
end of the room.
empty and lonely, too;
except for me.
–published in remark.