Ed Baker



YES, DEAR



watching her
worm-like wiggle
in a wet summer

dress  walk is fast

/going down

Houston Street

she turned

shouting back
at

me:

"Don't email me
"Don't ever send
"flowers

"or candy

"and  never  ever

"send me one of
"your  stupid

"fucking poems!"

I was struck
by the wiggle
in her walk

the
way
that
that
yellow
wet
dress
clung

she was cute
the pout was

erotic

.A couple of
weeks later


she called:

"what kind of a
"friend are you?

"you could call
"or
"come visit

"sometime."

I replied:

"Yes, Dear."








          HOA MAI


she brings
to me
a

perennial

   Doan-Trang
   brings to me

   a ceremonial

yellow spring flower  

yellow Stone Girl brings to me

every year  all the way from

Gai Lai

for occasions  Doan brings to

me

gay flowers every year

Spring Flower Festival
in

Tao Dan Park

she gives and to me is

Flower   on each  occasion

celebratory flowers from Viet Nam

Nguyen Doan Trang  says to me:

"since I was born in Sai Gon  1975
"the dislocations result not many flowers
"yet

"as Gardens decline
"&      no one spends
"money to grow again."


Stone Girl/Dawn is giving

             gives to me

me a New Year's flower...

            a Ceremonial .




Ed Baker 5/12/2009