from here

rummaging can be
an act of time travel
especially the basement,
where the past
dwells in the dark.
in an old letter
from eva + baby,
she calls me a fabulous person.
it's nice to be called
a fabulous person
by a woman you don't know
but you help her anyway
in the dead of night.
all I was looking for
were my old paddles.
later, during dinner,
lauren notices some
blood on my neck.

water has many uses
if a masked man comes
splash his face with water
ever wear a wet mask?
it's like waterboarding yrself
in the dark afternoon,
I help another woman
cigarette in my teeth,
metal pipe in my wet hands
breaking up the black
glacier that encased her car
she asks me where I'm from
my puffy hands stung red
from the ice and pipe steel
I didn't wanna get into it
I say I'm from here