One Sunny Fall

Already arrested if you walk down
Baltic Street a curtain of smog
blows into the automobile
which is vast and made of fresh
air and could be the earth.
It's always something sparking
the tweed on the dude
on fire on the album cover--
he's slurping
on tapas on Warren Street
where he waves from a window
hello and scoots around the corner
into the alley
where Lili Taylor had her photo
taken for The Times one sunny fall
a park with some red benches
the sky scrubbed with shimmering cold
the room above it all
smells like the heat is coming on.