Park Street Station, Preoccupied by Adam Grabowski

Park Street Station, Preoccupied

You, you delicate you. You don’t know this

but you get caught in my sweaters

all the time. I’ve built

an entire ocean on less. This hunger, this city

folds my sense of metaphor,

has me ordering conflict

when I meant coffee, something

you’re all too happy to throw back in my face,

still, you stop traffic & flower the Common at your say so.

Love me, delicately, elbows and all.

This is Boston and so the night looks starless & orange.

I’m right where you said to be, I’m looking for you.

You’re everywhere. Delicately.

Adam Grabowski is author of the chapbook Go on Bewilderment (Attack Bear Press, 2020) and his poems have appeared in such journals as Ninth Letter, New Ohio Review, Sixth Finch, OVERSOUND, and elsewhere. Adam lives in Western Massachusetts where he is currently the associate poetry editor for The Maine Review. adamgrabowskipoetry.com