North Pole Diet

06/22/09: DC to Baltimore

White mushrooms, garlic, olive oil, red, yellow and orange peppers, couscous, quinoa, tofu, hoison sauce and corn salad.

It is never a good feeling
having survived
when others
torn apart
dead or looking into sky
lie immobile
at the bottom
of a metal tunnel
after an earthquake.


















I couldn’t wait
to come home
to this meal
home to you
to be with you
to eat
and to see her off.

I was impatient
for all of this
not knowing
nine lives
were sacrificed
to an accident
that would murder
all our questions
or lack of them
with sickening luck.


















But still
I'm grateful
that much I feel.