New Music, Spring, 2020

You fill the space between drop

your yet-to-be-discontinued shark-print cotton face-mask

and every drop of rain on your window.

You fill the space between boots

Estragon puts on / takes off ad absurditātem

and boot prints, islands in abandoned sand.

You fill the space between light 

the computer to find dark squares where your students should be

and light blue as the waves my friend sends me from Kona.

You fill the space between moon

light through blinds as you sway,

and moon echoes of the radio sun.

For this poem I borrowed from the refrain for “Night and Morning” by Alina Baraz. Her 2020 album It Was Divine I had on loop in late April into early May of the panini shutdown. When I think back to that time I think of that album, as well as Cape God by Aly X, Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa, and How I’m Feeling Now (justice for “party 4 u” AT LAST) by charli xcx. Anyway, we’re now 2/3 of the way through NaPoWriMo, ayy!