1 poem & soundscape
Listen it’s my day off
I recognize the music playing
Here at Don Chignon
Near the Bergen Street stop off
The 3 train waiting for Brenda
To regroup @homeb4 receiving me
It’s The Shins’ Phantom Limb
Alone I acquire two orders of elote then one house
Margarita then just one more but worse is I just got
On an airplane and today is the day of the climate
Strike 6 dollars plus 8 plus tip how deep’s my carbon
Footprint for the cost of a magazine subscription
But now by the second round I may be unoriginal
Once I found a shiny layered rock on
Brighton beach in the sand
All over the darkness is real though
And oil fueled the plane not a boat
Youth activists gather from
Afar and I go to happy hour
What’s an ecopoetics of flying
Echo like during the climate strike
Me, this evening, Friday
September 20, 2019, I see a storefront
Called Kith&remember I have to write a thank
You to Divya but like Jimmie, been so busy
If I am not in conversation
With the next generation &
The ones preceding me
In my communities
About my day job
Then what am I
Even doing
&Now happy hour is over
And the last song: “I feel it in my bones
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At home Brenda says the poem can save the climate
Crisis and plays “Love is simple” by the Akron/ Family
We are at 596 Bergen Street in the back
Yard we dance with cleomes later
That Sunday during the equinox I hear
Unexpected echoes in the atmosphere I remember
Driving thru Wisco on poetry tour with Lauren and Lewis
We sang so many songs on the road and I made a video
&@the bookfest JoJo uttered about monogamy, real estate,
And forever&progeny&change and X too shy wasn’t taking
Interview questions when we were in the Korean
War Memorial Park anyway I always caution under my
Eco-sexuality as raindrops torrid down like a kiss
Did I kiss the cleome w/out consent
When we were dancing vine and pedals em-
Braced me I will ask when I am back
Soham Patel is the author of to afar from afar (The Accomplices), ever really hear it (Subito), and all one in the end--/water (forthcoming from Delete Press).