Wherever You AreA city changes youafter a decade or so, and whenyou return, even a year later,the city’s moved on, changingnew peo­ple in its time,its place. Very rarely,a stone mid­night, the waters hard,an egg breaks open and anoints youbreath­less­ly home. Otherwise, a red neon minus signwith traffic—throbbing your brain—decid­ed­ly worse. He loves children,car­ries a pink and green bas­ket and pointsto bush­es and even fartherpast the yard. ~Peter Ramos has two books of poet­ry, Lord Baltimore (2021, Ravenna Press) and Please Do Not Feed the Ghost (2008, BlazeVox Books).