for Ashley


you’re in a t-shirt and
shorts listening to Miles’
“Mood”—your hair
pinned up after a shower

Herbie Hancock on piano
soothes away the 6am rush
to work and classes stacked
into the evening

you’re not bothered by
your mother worried about
her only child being so far
from Baltimore

this moment’s calm and
relaxing.. like that friday
you walked through Adams
Morgan holding your man’s
hand after a movie

you were still high off the
three blunts hit before that
date, but remember walking
the damp streets with the
Queens-born musician

Miles leads this ballad
though, no wild sax solos to
imagine your baby blowing
in Howard’s big band

still you go back to that
night in his car, when he went
for the kiss that kept you
smiling all the way back
to your room

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this needs more
not length
just more

i just want chu to know
how i feel
how i feel