09/17/06

The Kari Name


The Kari name on the stoop I see people
reading, wrought on the parkside & north side, walk up & iron gate
beside frondy, shrubby June,  trash bits of letters: Kari,

the name,
amoung twelve and two o'clock walkers,
the birds, the said
scaffolding, amidst their pulling
up and in.

This is the city pivot of the Kari name:
she and I,  wood and wheel, birds, trash, still
in the winter and then rising up.

I rise & then Kari rises.
I rise and Kari rises east, west, central, & down.

This is not to say we are humane. It is a Junebox
quiet, a separate room; the tags stick out.

© Dawn Pendergast