Contributions by Sarah J. Sloat
Here on Business
Another Vespa needles my nerves.
This whole street, this district
stinks of luxury –
and even the rain
is sick of Italy.
Sworn to Observance
Even the dust has a life of its own
lying under the radiator –
mostly stagnant, although
it must stir, busy building
a swath of silt.
A piece of thread is swallowed;
a piece of thread may serve
to measure this long silence.