A Supermarket in California BY ALLEN GINSBERG What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches […]

To A Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away on two round wheels, my own mouth rounding in surprise when you pulled ahead down the curved path of the park, I kept waiting for the thud of your […]

Crush, Supermarket, California BY JAN-HENRY GRAY It’s easy to fall in love with the grocery store boys— the one with the tiny coffee cup sweatshirt, too-tight pants & cotton shoes or the impossibly pale fish boy who smiles when he says, I’m from Alaska. Your heart swelled, stupid & dreaming of a boat in arctic […]

They Dance Through Granelli’s By Pat Emile He finds her near the stack of green plastic baskets waiting to be filled and circles her waist with his left arm, entwines her fingers in his, pulls her toward him, Muzak from the ceiling shedding a flashy Salsa, and as they begin to move, she lets her […]