Passage

Warmth

i
Mass quan titties –
 words that get giggles
   from teenie bopperinies:

Catch the dance whenever we can,
don't forget to move.
Shake that whatchamashangalang
 'Way down in the groove:

Show me something! 
 says Rosie Ledet
and I say show me too.

ii
eat:
Steamed mussels and soft rice
Peppery and nice,
tender calamari,
   accompanied
   by butter beans
(Creole).
Our Moon is drunk to:
Wine or beer,
She makes a Crescent,
Clearly through the trees.

Colored lights are
Coming out.
It's Cold.

iii
Turn around comin' up...
 We hope.

 And that's what we enter into
in winter -
 a season only salvaged
 by expectancy and hope.

Together with a friend and two
This is all.
  And it's all
  we want:
  
An evening with the elegant moon
  and food.