West Brompton, SW6, April 8th, 2000

Ani Di Franco is scratching her guitar on the CD player
and I am sitting on a bamboo chair
on the third floor balcony
overlooking Stamford Bridge
greeting the trains passing behind the row of parked cars
between the blooming, serenely alive cemetery
and the greenery.
Breeze on my face, smelling of spring and promising summer.
The Norwegian women’s handball team
just won the European championships
on video.
Unintelligible laughing words mingled with bird songs.
Happiness.