Walking in my extra wide Nikes

Santa Anna knocking on my head

Surveying the neighborhood

Nails pound into my sinus ears

Nostrils can’t gulp air

The flip from early morning chill

To sunny 10:40 a.m. streets

Dogs doing their duty

Latino worker breaking their day

Melrose Place models get their snapshot

Listening to my New York Times Book Review Podcast

Is my memoir honest

Blood relative perspective

Husband private parts

Ex-lovers and friends

Am I fair?

Secreting rings of trees

To clear the dead memories