Seattle

rainy*night
Originally uploaded by puja.

Your core is
a lone, grizzly man
drunken and fighting and whoring,
stuck on skid row,
soaked in sweat
and must
and drizzle
and depravation.

The steel and shine and glint and glimmer,
the new quality of light that falls on your
tourist attractions is
never enough to disengage the qualities of moss
that creeps across
you.

The transformation will not complete
despite the movie house, coffee shop, sushi teriyaki,
strip malls.
We can only guess
the future shines brightly in your eyes

You're forever looking inward.