The Sky

The sky is bright with stars

After a hot day

The coolness of my body

Leaving finger by toe in the heat of the spa

Looking through the garden lights

At tall houses around me

I thought, No, just happy

The night is bright with stars,

She told me

She no longer missed her parents

But you loved them, I said

I did, said she, more than myself

And now I’m free

That was my friend Pipi

Such a whore, I said to myself

Like me, such a whore like me

As I hear the roosters of Samoa

In the laughing of coyotes