on midnight walks in the flatlands,
each routine crack in the sidewalk
becomes another crack in an oracle bone
each hooded figure behind you a wolf.
when you begin to breathe heavy
you sit on the stoops of strangers
and toss sticks, watch hungrily for
the concrete squares where they fall.
you feel like a child again and
light a cigarette, twine smoke signals
around the necks of streetlamps.
your future rises with your breath.
run on home, girl with scraped knees;
don't you know that
rain on pavement glints like teeth
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