My lover,
insistent on educating me through films and poets, never imagining
how easily I’d drift away and that a couple-of-college-years-one-abortion-
brief-marriage-quickie-divorce-pregnancy-and-my-baby-girl later
I’d wind up only blocks from where this party happened, living near
Ginsberg, Monk, Ciardi, Dworkin (or was it Rich?) who all
worked, read and played, at an easy distance I’d never travel.
(Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Foundation: honorable mention)