11 April 2018

First Avenue after/for Rae Armantrout

First Avenue
            after/for Rae Armantrout

(the) silence 
under peerless 
vehicle noise 

seems like 
the only 
is  

doctor says 
you had 
a heart attack 

when 
(you ask)

(busy year)

*
those bricks red 
for the office 
official order
for ignoring

speed past 

economics 
interrupt this poem 

child places bow 
in hair 
wails: but I can’t 
pay the rent 

still

*
Harvard says 
half of all heart attacks 
remain unrecognized

you’re not
so bad

didn’t mind
constant honking

or hated it