Where to Go

My body hurts

Bands of muscle and ligament

Stretch tight and knot and rope around my legs and back.

Hips stiff and crack

They are stuck, not moving forward, can’t move forward.

I decide to try

Just try to decide.

And write lists of which answer is right

No answer is right.

Mountains of ice and green?

Or oak trees and ivy growth?

Seven sisters dance hand in hand

Jewish fellows and Knopf writers.

Oh, New York.

But pioneers and farmers

And eyeless wanderers and marathon runners

Call so loudly.

Not good at math

The money’s not so easy

Money

Is never easy.

Resolve to check out the books

And read, read, read.

Step on the plane

And arrive.

The feeling will come

Oh, what a feeling.