smoke is mostly a solid,
suspended in sky like sand in
turbid water, casts a pall over all,
colors the sunset crimson, seeps into
lungs like dust in couch cushions, chokes
without making a scene, sifts down trachea
when you're asleep. so when it finally lifts and
drifts off and away to trouble someone else,
down-
wind and undeserving, no wonder we rush outside,
to
bask and breathe even if it's still subpar
AQI. this guy. 64
& sunny, he thinks
it's miami and no one here would disagree.
forgive the dutch angle--i shot this
from the hip, not wanting to
draw attention to myself. everyone's anonymous
when you get right
down to it. we're here to disappear, and when i
ambled back from my
p.o. errand, he was gone. the days grow shorter;
gonna be a long winter.
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