the lines aren’t long enough on a phone
& I don’t know what to offer but my youth
suffering from emotional jet lag you’ve
got a home in me covered in blanket
like a sandwich scraping my nails on
barnes & noble wifi just to eat dubai
chocolate out of a trash can back at
vesuvio like when did my life ever begin
having the extra-dry martini I craved
since I was fifteen now I wish there
were more hours in the day I haven’t
suffered from instant nostalgia in so long
it’s been petal storms since I’ve stepped out
of myself to look at the life we’ve shared
two years & now it’s almost summer
again that’s why I love san francisco
year-around fog & can’t we just stand here
forever on Jack Micheline Place
Ashley D. Escobar is a writer and filmmaker from San Francisco, residing in New York City. Eileen Myles selected her debut poetry collection GLIB (2025) as the Changes Book Prize winner. She graduated from Bennington College and holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Drift, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hobart, among others.
the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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