The River Merchant, Stuck in Kalamazoo, Writes His Wife a Letter during Her Semester Abroad

We were looking forward to being alive.

Now you new place! Me not too! Strange taste

afternoon lonely for hummingbird mouthful.

You somewhere else make everywhere else

elser. I know almost nothing about this flower

growing from my chest. Does it need deadheading?

Only you not answer. This complete the test

of the emergency broadcast system? Definition

of the female breasts as modified sweat gland

certainly leave out curfew-breaking! Sunny melon

morning all day! Remember! In my dream, almost

get your sash off then wake of sadness. Forceful

but gentle I not girl-scaring want to explain

not like Jim explain his night in jail so

fly-around he explain other nights in jail.

No hello river in the sky then. When someone

love you, good to be afraid-making in that way? Not

nice among dumb bamboo thickets, gazillion

crickets not one Thelonius Monk. Ha ha

only so long. I grow cold. Soon snow

fall on the no more factory.