photo by Alex Lear
In A Sentimental Mood…
yr voice approaches
a timid fawn cautious
about crossing
a previously untrod path…
but what do i know of deer,
the cold efficiency of cars and
planes power my traveling
this deer image is just a
sentimental conceit–or is
it a secret wish I have hidden
from myself to taste
some wild unmanufactured
emotion that my urban
life can only imagine?
—kalamu ya salaam