downtown Los Angeles in the middle of the day

 

 

Carl and i sit

on the grass in Pershing Square

    downtown Los Angeles

watching window washers

    on the 18th floor

    of a south facing building

and take discrete nips

off a fifth of Jack Daniel hidden

in a brown paper bag

 

Santa Ana winds

whip through concrete canyons

  bite our skin

bits of daily life swirl around in

  random cyclones gum up the works

 

the window washers sway and curse

when sudden gusts push through

 

carl laughs and takes another hit 

 

    it is midday

   on a Tuesday

 

  downtown Los Angeles

jacklyn henry

 

bio: jacklyn henry is a genderqueer writer based on the fringe of sanity, Los Angeles. she has had some success of late at: delicate friend, flying dodo, H S T, pink disco, cream scene carnival, and, in a different lifetime, ariel chart.