Gleam

by Shara Brown

angels don’t touch the ground
am i an angel?

don’t let the light burn you up
don’t drive too far into the sky

dig four limbs into
the grass at Griffith Park,
once a week, and

always experience the infinite blue
through sunglasses and sunscreen
said the former angeleno

Is a non-native still a flower?
yes, but  – of course

I am intoxicated.
I am smelling
and that is really
here

a big deal movie
quality projection, light

know you are not very important
no, you are very important

a decade closed on
numbered streets that
I could make out
in the rain

which I knew
to feel cold

I don’t know anything in california

lost in the illuminated line
of a sun that sets where it too rises

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sharaShara Brown moved here from New York City three years ago. She played Humpty Dumpty in her elementary school ballet and leads Rush Hour Sitting at SMCLA.