Today's Theme: Desire and Remembering
Braving New Land
In rapturous anticipation I volunteered,
waved both hands skyward
Everyone who lives in Michigan
Wants to move to California
Leaving family and friends behind
Makes no difference, doesn’t matter
We dream
expect movie life
Hollywood,
Malibu,
San Francisco
Never Bakersfield
Never the desert
Never thermometers reaching
such heights as one hundred twelve
And when faced with loneliness
Faced with strangers who dismiss you because of how you look
And the never-turning leaves of unfamiliar trees
My most ardent desire
became to go home
Home
Where my heart had stayed
