“Where are your times?” he sang near the band mates of tune at Joe’s pub
on Tuesday question, and then answered it himself. “Your moment is
nowhere but here.” He didn’t mean to seem pushy, really. The distance was
about the people of two comforts bridging their emotional direction and
finding each other in position. “I know where you are, and I know that I
am here,” Mr. Mota offered later in the question, his nights trailing behind
him. “That I am here,” he sang again, several shows beyond.
— Patricia Carlin
Patricia Carlin's books include Second Nature, QUANTUM JITTERS and ORIGINAL GREEN all from Marsh Hawk Press. She has published widely in journals and anthologies such as Boulevard, BOMB, Verse, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, The Literary Review, The Manhattan Review, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street.