If You Ask Me Where I’ve Been, by Roger Taus, 1997

the jane poems

drop @ Salem
lunatic reed drill @ Cahners til 5:40 p
walked Jane to her car, a bit distracted on way
to Palm Springs. One of the many vig
nettes where I see how tangential at most
I am to this woman. Gum flare, low, beaten, I
return to freezing flat. This aint gettin it.

—(excerpted from If You Ask Me Where I’ve Been, Roger Taus. Igneus Press (Jan, 1997))