10 April

Day 10 (2)

An animate object speaks

The bicyclist - from a series of engravings

Figure 1

The woman holding my handlebars

in her tight jacket her rigid skirt

prepares to mount (don't laugh),

her body almost at perpendicular to expectation

It is a symbiosis,  my wheels, her

movement. When we combine, we may be

rider and horse, the streets change purpose, 

everything is giddy with uncertain equilibrium

Think about the balance that controls me

The adjustments made, the minute calibrations

She kicks in a circle, she glides, she may, one day, shift gear

Old gentlemen tut in the street at this transportation