City

City

City

a yearned-for somewhere
   adverb-physically
as lost as now
        gazing across
             the chunky valley
to a hill
     of quivering lights

there is no
      destination –
  just a place
        no site
not olympic
              village site
not harbourside
          casino site
nor section
     of expressway
          just east
of where
          coincidence
           has determined
                your residence
in a city
    you returned to
        to remember
            why you left


inventing
   nostalgia
       for elsewhere –
you’ll live there
          in the future