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“Kick a Few Flows”
(William Carlos Williams poem)
By Amanda Ramsey

I left your house with the wind,
Drifting beneath the door like a draft,
Into a seven o’clock
and glittering morning.
A time when the sky falls
in love with the earth,
Descending and draping
itself in the treetops,
Clinging and lying,
cuddled up sweetly in the streets.

I’ll be bold for just one, tiny second--
So listen closely!
I think your obsession with
Notorious B.I.G. is cute.
And that you have him on vinyl
Confounds me, completely.

Again, I’m sorry if I frightened you
With that Lady Gaga video—
I saw that collapsed look
fall over your eyes
and your lashes lower
to the small plums of your cheeks.
But I promise you—
Don't worry. It’s only pretend.

The truth sits beside you,
Working hard to calm the
deep and amorous
Tympani of her heart.