Tag: poetry

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how poetry asserts itself

from a work in progress: “process, not a journey” (17)

Image of cute little boy launch paper ship on the lake in the park. Adorable kid boy playing with a boat. Curious child sailing a toy boat by the waters’ edge outdoors. Childhood and ecology concept

he alludes to a poem as if others

know what he thinks about before he can

speak which in this case means before he can

think his thoughts being like Rube Goldberg

devices clacking along tripping springs and

traps which propel the odd idea along

tangential routes until finally falling

into its assigned slot and everything

stops and silence expands like waves of water

rippling across the surface of a lake

eventually lapping the far shore

where a small boy plays with a wooden boat

never once thinking about poetry

(January 23, 2020)

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amorphous

from a work in progress: “process, not a journey” (14)

forgetting the pattern of fear

and doubt tangled about me

I fall out of sleep and remember

what parts of myself I need

–

to continue some resemblance

of the day the inessential shades

my ghosts as darkly as the essential

each shifts its position evasively

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when questioned like a cat

slips through shadow and grass

(January 21, 2020)

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the future was a threat

from a work in progress: “process, not a journey” (12)

in school we were always on the move

field trips to museums to math class

with Mr. Buesing to middle school

to high school to college the future

was a threat brandished like a whip

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by degrees our world turned

then it stopped and I stumbled

and found myself here in the mud

like a body dropped from the door

of a passing car

(January 18, 2020)

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Squirrel

from a work in progress: “process, not a journey” (11)

she skitters part way

into the empty street

stops stutter steps

grasps the road

trying not to fall off

then leaps back

unsure what’s next

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I rarely know

finding myself

now as if

it made sense

yet knowing I’m wrong

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I turn

without reason

as a car

crushes past

(January 16, 2020)