Some of the time, sun at my back

GASSING UP NOW

     --Canten me canciones de valor

        Rio de Tenampa, Los Lobos

Stop at Los Juanes

and pick up two pounds

of Diez Millos and

soft corn tortillas

Loscha River in my head

Masha Gessen in my head

Karen Bodeen in my head

Svetlana Alexievich in my head

Stop in the Bingo Parking Lot

in Union Gap, write that down

Write that down so I'll know,

later, what happened,

what was important,

I don't know now,

looking for that larger

word of love

Love is a river heart

Los Juanes is so cool

Those two Johns,

they could be me

Jim Bodeen

26 August 2016