Emptying into the larger river
The brook
Summer arrives
It doesn't exist
A place for floating dandelion to collapse
Try to take hold
Mostly scrabble
Stone and gravel
Harsh
Gritty
Baked by rays
Hot
Shimmering
Parched
Until the snows come again
#Poetry
Every day
The clothes pile up
With a family of five
The shirts
And the shorts
(Thank goodness it's nearly summer)
And the socks
And the underwear
God, the underwear
I wonder what this pile would weigh
If I could get it onto a scale
If ever it could be contained
In that manner
Does it even make sense
To find the mass of cloth
To tally it like a body or an ingredient
Some have simplified
Identical colors
Identical garments
Identical days
Identical nights
But still they have to wash
dry
fold
repeat
But still they have to
#Poetry
The clouds had went
Their separate ways
Sucked out of the sky
By the departing wind
What was left was pure
And glittering
And calm
Like the eye of a storm
A respite
From the constant chill
The continuous strong motion
With good fortune it could last longer
Not just a passing relaxation
Is wishing a strategy?
Does hoping yield results?
#Poetry
Would you rather?
Sights and sounds
I miss the painted colors
But I still have the shimmering movements
The ether swirling around my head
All the dimensions in play
The other flat in comparison
I would sit
I would hear
I would be okay
Not great
But okay
If light is a wave
Does it not make a vibration?
Can it not be visualized aurally?
#Poetry
All the things are happening
It's coming down all around
It gets everywhere
Like sand on a beach
Or Star Wars on my streaming
The sunny days are freezing
The cloudy days are warm
And occasionally dripping
It's been weeks since there was a good day
Though yesterday wasn't bad
As far as days go
Perhaps it's time to step forward
But with everything holding me back
I'm not sure how
I'm not sure how
#Poetry
They get older
They need care
They want independence
They want home
And so you hint
What you need
It's not there
It's a choice
It's a Life
or Death
One is ready
To start that next stage
The other wants to buy
The farm on the farm
So together they stay
Until together they aren't
The line is direct
Between here and there
Without movement
Without change
The hardest thing
For one to do
So we wait
So we know we wait
For Death
To make the choice
To make the change
To make the move
#Poetry
I woke up at the farm
And cracked open the Mad Farmer
It felt like the right thing
And the total wrong thing
Just like it felt wrong
To read a foreward
When I meant to read poetry
So here I sit with attitude
Having read three poems
In the dark
And now I can tell people
I read the Mad Farmer at the farm
Like I'm some sort of learned man of the earth
#Poetry
Just wait, just watch
A future will form and exist
Small though it is the
Town passes by in your rearview like the
Girl you used to be
Livin' comes easy
In the out there beyond
A thing you won't expect
Lonely then full of life this
World you've yet to build
#Poetry
Everyone else was rolling to their
Workaday occupations
While this group of folk
Like so many crows
Working together to
Antagonize their neighbors
They pushed buttons
Picked up little projects
Of no import
But their own amusement
Sometimes they didn't talk
To each other for days
Then suddenly
With little planning
They were pushing towards
An invented goal
Realizing
Aren't they all made up?
While the rest of us
Were tapping our watches
And punching our clocks
Like they were our faces in the mirror
#Poetry
Imagine going along in life
Saying all those things
Just talking and talking
That's how you got attention
Affirmation
Admiration
Suddenly those things you're saying
Close the doors
To friendships and jobs
Sealed in your little tin can
Smelling only your own breath
And whatever used to be stored in here
It's like a bubble
Forced upon you
Around you
The only thing you can think to do
More words
More shouting
More attention
Tighter seals
Your tiny, tinny voice
Hardly getting heard
Such that it needs paraphrased
Until it no longer echoes around
Anywhere in reality
But only in your head
#Poetry