January 23, 24

*
Gulls float,
mirrored
and remirrored
between
bank towers,
(captains
of capitalism)
banking
away—
beneath
high 
thin cirrus

(habitual)

The commute,
a mobius loop,
home to work
to (the question
is 
one of action,
or escape
from perpetual
inaction)
The question
is


*
Steam flows
down
from a chimney
drifts across
a rooftop.
Construction cranes
tower above 
the city.
Crows.

Colder

than it will be
(warming world)
(let it bake:
their policy--
let the tides 
wash
through Miami’s
streets.)
Sludge from pipelines
plopping
into streams.