conjunct
Central Park, NYC, spring 2002
"conjunct" is composed of two images, which don't translate well from AVI to MOV format. Therefore, click here to go to Truitt page on UBU.com, where it is stably lodged.
Kim Jaye (whose face you can just make out) and I were northbound in winter up the Hudson on Metro North.
"Going up the country" refers to a Canned Heat song of that title; "can" is another word for buttocks.
I refer to Wallace Stevens in this poem.
I loved hitting the last line, with the etymological pun of "lips" to the PIE word for "life" (lip-), and later learned that unbeknownst to myself I may have been quoting Robert Creeley, though he writes "mouths."