our happiness by Eileen Myles

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was when the lights were out   the whole city in darkness   & we drove north to our friend’s yellow apt. where she had power & we could work   later we stayed in the darkened apt. you sick in bed & me writing ambitiously by candle light in thin blue books   your neighbor had a generator & after a while we had a little bit of light   I walked the dog & you were still a little bit sick   we sat on a stoop one day in the late afternoon we had very little money. enough for a strong cappuccino which we shared sitting there & suddenly the city was lit.            Copyright © 2014 by Eileen Myles. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.” —Eileen Myles   Eileen Myles is the author of I Must Be Living Twice: new & selected poems 1975-2013, forthcoming from Ecco/Harper Collins in 2015. She teaches at New York University and lives in New York City.   Photo Credit: Rebecca Wolff Most Recent Book by Myles   Snowflake / different streets (Wave Books, 2012) "This City" by Liam Rector "Move to the City" by Nathaniel Bellows "In Darkness" by Jon Davis Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038