DOVETALES

With Mishana Hosseinioun

Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

September 24, 2006

Writing in The Fog

By Mishana Hosseinioun

The City sleeps in
Ironed curtains pulled
Wind trickles
Raindrops stop mid flight
Skin of the bay rises in a sigh
Lights bobble
Windows slow dance
Asphalt weeps
Hills spill dirty secrets
Trees whisper white lies

The City forgets to make the bed
After itself
Orders
One
Tall
Golden Gate
With extra foam
Chain-smokes
Exhaust pipes
At rush hour
Blows second hand citizens
Through whiteness
To pasty cubicles
And White Out tubs

The City rides in the fog
And I write in the fog

Look
No hands

Mishana Hosseinioun is the Program Director of International Convention on Human Rights (ICHR), a non-profit dedicated to drafting a legally enforceable international human rights document. She is a longstanding intern in Mayor Gavin Newsom's office in San Francisco and a recent graduate of Rhetoric and Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Email Mishana at Mishana@ichr.org

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