from two tiers up
it presses down on me,
filled with a gray-brown cloud,
invisible,
of something nameless,
edgy, hostile
and immeasurably sad.
I feel the stares
of men looking,
and not looking at me
wanting contact, conversation,
attention, sympathy,
distraction,
anything,
anything at all
Wanting,
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Lewis Mehl-Madrona graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, Coyote Wisdom, and (
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