Dolores Park Café

Strong coffee laptop ritualistic Sunday
Windowpane turkey sandwich flashing stoplight
Across street taxi graffiti in resistance isosceles

Fragment existence impulsion is implosion
Is routine absorbed and how who knew the scar
Tearing black-and-white photographic winter

Dolores Park Café the pigeons at our feet

 

 

Author of the article

Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology. He teaches creative writing online and edits for Frontier Poetry. He has a forthcoming full collection, Bad Mexican, Bad American, with Acre Books in 2024.