Monday, December 18, 2006

Great Traditions

I’m wearing a suit at breakfast. The morning shotgun scented, dead leaves crisp as crab rangoons. My cereal is stars and planets. The other of the Great Traditions is the walk through the headstones. I keep turning my back at a single leaf tumbling after me. I keep thinking it’s the Confucius of Chongming Island. I keep getting my foot stuck in urns.