Rain on East 77 Street - June 1978

Midnight
Outside
Rain
Thunder.
Inside the foyer My finger
On the buzzer
No reply____
Last winter
Lisa left
To be a model
In Europe
No letters
Since April___
Her face
Never on French Vogue
Nor Italian Vogue
Nor inside any fashion magazine.
Gone___
Inside the hallway
No one
My finger on the buzzer
A last time
Past midnight
She not here
The last word
In the last letter
Love
Lisa
Where did the love go?
All I see are ghosts
Of you
All I have
Are ghosts.
Outside in the rain.
Eyes on the dark windows
I walk away
Into midnight.
Into the rain
With
Only one destination
Away from here
To someplace else
And out of the rain.