12.31.21

the last of the last 

of the last of the year

may we open our eyes

like 4 the first 

time   #katyamills

DIDION

i often pedal down your street 

the home where you grew up 

by the Sacramento Bee 

you can taste the print coming off the papers

cross-pollinating

not unlike how your words 

and your life indelible 

touched us    #katyamills

be the one

be the one 

unafraid

to admit when you are

wrong

you may be

the only one

be the one

#katyamills

workers on break

slowed heartbeats

inhaling the rain 

on break

stirring grounds 

in the kettle

pushing the embers

cutting earth out of the sole

with a blade

cherishing a smoke

with a friend

#katyamills

Thiebaud

all the cakes and pies gumballs turned out the machines bouncing off kitchen floors produced the precise sugar rush required to render the masterpieces san francisco streets the geometry of farms and orchards touched by sunlight divided by river within the delta

#katyamills

cash out

farewell to the holiday bonus sucked into these machines relentless sound smoke and show farewell to the players pale hanging off they drinks rinky-dinks indefinito forgot how to think what time or day what the hell to say no cash 2 cash out no getaway #katyamills

Ione

one lonely night in Ione

headlights pawing the foothills 4 life 

my heart whispered 

the truth beneath these shields

of rain and wind

that though we may be better off apart

distant relatives is the sorriest

combination and god only knows

where my life would be 

without you

#katyamills