Looking but not Looking
Elbows posted on the table
in a way that is absolutely true.
So poetic and serious
in its grasp of English grammar,
it emerges on a scale
with the depth of living
in this place.
With all that training and diaspora
we wonder where they were
and how they came together.
So extraordinary to describe
his youth in beautiful novels
with all that lucidity and erudition
and just so sexy too.
Looking but not looking.
