Circling Venice

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Circling Venice

Here is a teaser:

California Orbits

we were comets hurtling

in great eccentric orbits

so close in Venice years before

flying fast at periapsis

then speeding off again up Highway 101

distance measured by the plains of Camarillo

speed measured by the beat of the Cumbia

the trumpets blaring in sweaty Oxnard bars

finally the endless outer reaches

tiny houses by the farm fields of Ventura

searching through Kepler’s laws

waiting for gravity or stubbornness

or orbital momentum

to draw us back again

you count from 1975

I count from an airplane ride

on the way to San Francisco

window seat                       the clouds

bright behind your hair

you count from a chapel in Huntington Park

I count from holding hands again

tighter                            like we meant it

stopping each other in mid flight

in the sunshine of the Embarcadero