brownies in a box, individually wrapped,
flavors like “Peanut Butter,” “Caramel,”
“Espresso Nib,” and “Coconut,” a
snowball stressball (I didn’t lie),
a green dragon, a pee-colored
waterbottle, a postcard with a Hockney
portrait, a postcard with a Rauschenberg
combine, 103 degrees at the Carl Hotel,
Blue Moon (employment agency),
interview at 101 California, sirens
in the distance, flared tempers,
a Terra Vista rental deposit, but no
apartment yet, exhaust, Swingline
stapler, Blackberry, two portraits by
Otto, another postcard (Arthur Dove),
a San Francisco streetmap, two
calendars (different years),
two journals (over six years apart),
fog...
