invisible people

You pass in silence

barely seeing,

alley filled with light,

the day still, windless

cold, the absence

of desire, when he

appears, shopping

cart of treasures,

looking like someone

you knew: a friend

who lost his way, sad-

faced boy at the park,

his eyes gazing far off,

as if he had already left

his mortal body behind.

 

--M deO

Done