Ongoing Moments
(after the writing of Geoff Dyer)
Howie Good

1

When we see birds
in the evening,

Camus said,
we always think of them

as heading home.
A white truck,

its lights blurring
through the rain,

is coming the other way.

2

Something was there
and no longer is.
The elevator door

will open again,
not on another floor,
but in another city.

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