c
the crying rivers limp along sedately
severally dimpled
both channels
equidistant from
my third-floor brown brick
brick-brown apartment
block
rising like stiff mohawk hair
above the flat
dull-eyed riverbed
unreal estate
postcard-painted
on the iris
an island in the middle
of this river’s shiny skull
carved out with a barber’s swift
sure hair-parting hand
