Brand New Spacesuit

tugging away at the frayed end
of the 20th century.

A: “Would you like a drink?” B:
“Think about what?” And so on

The one we always talk about, the one with Kevin Bacon
and Audrey Hepburn playing the guardians of Hell

And when you don’t remember what day
it is, happy birthday.

But even so, one can be wrong
about the past, and deduce from error, but still be right about
the future or the present.

to lose, and in so many different ways.

morning of remembering, as there are so many things to forget,

That’s what I need, the beautiful blue

It glows
a beautiful greenish-blue when it comes into contact with blood
by reacting to the iron in hemoglobin, looking a bit like the sky
this morning

A chemist once told me luminol was her favorite color.