ALEX BERNSTEIN





PASSING THE AUDUBON CENTER BOATHOUSE


You text me to say
birds are gross.
Trees affect me
in a completely
theoretical way.
I triangulate thinking
about the future
of the succulents
I want to buy later.
A child falls off
her bicycle.
Her mother says,
good, do it again.
She pretends to tie
her shoe. It's perfect
how she found it.
The guide names
the only flower
that grows
in this pavilion,
but I'm not listening,
which involves
all my ideas
about lichen and lakes,
especially the one
about the banker
who every day
pawned his clothes
on his way home
from the office.






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