Poem

January 1, 2007

Airport

Terminal corridor.

Cowboy. Wrangler jeans

round-toe boots.

Black hat, shaved head

beef-pink .

Lordly saunter and disregard

scuffed and dusty people

color of his low heels

clutch bundles

knotted as packs

babies in cloth hammocks

plastic sacks of food

wear their wealth:

nose-rings and bangles,

uncertain, alert, determined

embroidery of inherited coherence.