Amy King is the author of the poetry collection, Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazvox Books 2005), a Lambda Book Award finalist, and the chapbook, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award 2002). She currently teaches Creative Writing and English at Nassau Community College and teaches a workshop of her own design, Making the Urban Poetic, at Poets House in Manhattan. Amy is also an interview correspondent for miPOradio. Please visit www.amyking.org.

                                                                          —for Rob Davis

I missed you at the coffee shop
before sunrise, so I went along
with a to-go in hand all the way
to Clinton and Jerolemon,
where the subway juts up
from the earth's eye socket,
& from the corner of my own,
I twisted toward the sparrows
upon sparrows covering
a 30-foot stucco wall cracked
with song, without syllables,
"Here Comes the Sun" in case
I lost track of the time.
Tell the people you pass
and inhabit later on:
Take your marketable skills
and raise them to this wall;
hold your brush up wet with
rushes and slows and find
your daytime position sings here.

©  Amy King 2006.