UNTITLED (all (c) paul heidelberg '21)

New work for Jeanette Heidelberg

 GO BACK TO THE STARS

Go back to the stars

moon and star

moon and star

Go back to the stars,

Again.

PH

9/26/21

(From memory -- may differ from original. THIS IS FOR MY SISTER JEANETTE HEIDELBERG.)

POEM FOR SPRING 2021

 SACRAMENTO STREET

A flowered curtain

rests

in front of

the street-light.

It's midnight's

witness

to taxi-sounds

and smoldering

cigarettes.

In this quiet

we all

should be loved.

In this quiet

we all

should be friends.

You can count

the foot-steps

between the late-night

pavement

and the beginning

of the ocean,

between the vacant

street-corners

and the roughness

of the kiss

upon the stones,

between the cheap talk

of the alleys

and the lovers

beneath the sand.

(C) Paul Heidelberg