A copy of the Odyssey 

Or the Iliad 

I’m not quite sure  

I left it at home 

 

“A Case of You” by 

Joni Mitchell, pouring out 

Of me into  

These lines 

 

A pair of stolen  

polished dimes 

Asking to dance  

in the morning time 

 

Being  

Lost 

On the first floor of 

His building after dark 

 

Petals pressed from a  

Damask rose 

Two years old 

Stem dry in 

The vase 

 

An empty bottle of wine 

 

Two petals, yellow, 

From the park 

 

A fire escape from 

Which someone missed 

Me in New Jersey 

 

A red hard 

Candy if you can  

Believe it 

 

And an elevator going up 

 

Everything else 

Is being  

Resold 

At Goodwill if you 

Would like to find it