i yearn for her now, 
amid car horns and
coffee-stained sidewalks.
under bare, lifeless sky, 
i long for her shade.
these streets are swarmed, but
there is no life until
 
the wind blows and i am 
reminded she is here, among the
hard highways of Houston; 
she is waiting for me
to find her.

life after lights // a.s.m