Directions

I don't need directions in the city anymore
but today it felt like I was roaming through
a foreign city with my little girl
who slept in her stroller.

It was warm and there is something about cities
when it's warm,
something subtle enters the faces of people
glee and a form of ecstasy
that's purely natural.

We like our warmth
and the light
and I like it when familiar things,
things I see every day,
turn estrange.