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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Shara 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.