Morning Catalog
That sound's
the ocean's
collision
with traffic
ground down
to a thin hiss.
Day gathers
white—
too fucking white—
between buildings.
Rectangles
of shadow
on rectangles
of grass.
Copyright Credit: Joseph Massey, "Morning Catalog" from Areas of Fog. Copyright © 2009 by Joseph Massey. Reprinted by permission of Shearsman Books.