Kensington Afternoons

Daniel Shawn Otis

AH!

The weather so nice
birds eat raw rice
and I watch their
          stomachs
                    EXPLODE!

IT’S

Kensington Market
Bellevue Square
and the wind tilts
and spills my
morning hair

AS

children scream
cycles gleam
kids learn how to ride
trees grow giant
to a city defiant
and in the leaves
we kids hide

MEANWHILE:

Arabesque man
in towels and rags
sifts through park
searching out fags
and

d i s   s o   l v e    s

into the sun
                    O