thoughts all sing-songy like No one knows where I am right now I test a swelling sense of invincibility stroll in the wrong direction with my dress trailing mid-air all the bars letting out & some bodies so close I'm convinced they pa** right through me every jolt of pleasure attuned at once: strung-up lights blurred & blinking mouths holding silent O's chilled air by the gulpful, a shock to the system senses sharper & a harvest-bright moon the clock tower chimes an alarm for those tensed & ready to walk the high-wire between ardor & fury 13th street starlets fan their lashes curbside, holler Get it, honey which I take to mean quit sleeping easy & shimmy down a backstreet to slip off last year's sweetness & reserve The wanting itself suddenly enough.