So when I cut up
this banana
and put it in a bowl
there was nothing
else and I ate it
on its own
like it was
enough
when the only coffee
you have
smells like those incense
lit in the nights
you were incensed
by some love
and time
was in a bank
that was never open
in the hours
you could get there
Adam Deutsch is the author of a full-length collection, Every Transmission (Fernwood Press 2023). He has work recently in Poetry International, Thrush, Juked, AMP Magazine, Ping Pong, and Typo, and has a chapbook called Carry On (Elegies). He teaches in the English Department at Grossmont College and is the publisher of Cooper Dillon Books. He lives with his spouse and child in San Diego, CA.
