A n n e W a l d m a n : K e e p i n g T h e W o r l d S a f e F o r P o e t r y

N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 5 : S p e c i a l E d i t i o n

STACY SZYMASZEK

from A YEAR FROM TODAY

Spanish wine in a goblet

engulfs my face I’m late chair next to Anne is open she opens

more than one scarf Spring starts with Anne’s birthday

“Aren’t you cold?” my blazer is

blue & gray wool scarf is from

Dress Shoppe II made in India 1908

later it falls from her she calls I trace her steps

find it

“I FUCKING FOUND IT”

“YOU FUCKING FOUND IT”

on steps of a brownstone on 10^th

it’s that shop on 2^nd with yellow trim

leave my address on a postcard proprietor

says “for a love note”

[A poem I wrote on Anne's 70th birthday, which also happens to be the first poem in a serial poem/document I wrote for a year, called A YEAR FROM TODAY, a forthcoming work from Nightboat Books, 2017. –S.S.]