Some Dodgers are not on a Brooklyn baseball team

Some Dodgers are not on a Brooklyn baseball team

ducking into a crawlspace

anonymously vacant

to stay earthed

poor poet---

stiffed by the pen

no handouts

not even a punctuation mark

with which to buy next meal's manuscript

eyes softly spliced

to a dream

to a word

to create what was never said

before---

But when dessert is announced

the vacancy metamorphosis 

into eviction

no longer diction

that sets up house

in the shoddiest part

of town---

where the walk home

is through

dangerous gangs of verbs.

erin-cilberto

2/13/25