No. 1 just
remember
I’m always
right there
right ready
a presence
that avails
always holds
and supports
walks with
next to within
without bias
a resistance
par excellance
equal weight
reaching out
and so far it
waits within
just for now.
James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.