In Each Look Our Years
that’s it
that I walked into the cafe
and in the noise and crowd
we met
and that I saw
what it was I’d been
in what it was
I saw
that in our skin
in the decade of our skin
is what began
before we knew
and that time before
with this time now
is nothing
waiting to start again
Copyright © 2007 by Edwin Torres. “In Each Look Our Years” was originally published in In the Function of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books, 2007). Reprinted with permission of the author.