Jack Hirschmann

Poems

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Human interlude
for Teddy Garvin

She was standing against
the wall near
the Tevere Hotel holding
a plastic cup
as it began to rain.

I dug for a coin, walked
up to her
and dropped it in.
It fell to the bottom
of an orange drink.

I blushed, looked into her
ravaged eyes and skin
and hair prematurely
greying, and said
I was sorry, I'd thought

she needed some bread.
"I do," she said
and smiled, "I was
just having a little
drink."

And we stood there
laughing together
as we watched the raindrops fall
on the orange lake
above the drowning money.