Saturday, June 8, 2013

June o8, 2o13
   As I said before, a little bit behind on posting poems here. This one was written about 3 months ago. The pic is of Patricia Crespin. I took it several years ago and have used it on other poems.



Water
 
The weight of stone
compared to dream
is lighter than a feather.
 
The moon’s bright laugh
a nothing but a misty blue
adrift within your eyes.
 
This lifetime of dark barrooms,
drunken insults, angry words
with angry patrons,
 
could never pound away,
drive away, dry up that river,
that ocean you’ve become.
My feet could never overcome
the need for travel, their grand desire
to kick at the cat, the crumbs of bread
 
that lead the way back home. Now,
blind they are and mute and dead
they are to everything… but you.
rrw o3-14-13 (rewrites o6-o8-13)

 

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