September 13, 2021

Poem

"...under fierce blue clouds thick as pillows..."

"...when men and women with cameras and microphones come to the door..."

"...in the bark of early morning..."

"...far from any care..."

"...so beautiful sparkling blue and electric-green..."

"...the road a sheet of ice..."

"...is whatever he's got creeping underneath my door?.."

"...I laughed at them, the wind in my face..."

"...I never knew I had..."

"...a wasp stuck its triangular head out..."

"...the blood red sun that scorched the pavement...

"...sizzled like bacon on the grill..."

" The important thing is to not die...

"...only more of the same cold rain..."

"6:08 AM bird peeps from meadows of fire..."

"...a cold wind, blowing gray scrum of clouds..."

"...a million specks of light, two million divots of shadow..."

"...purling and deep from snow-melt..."

"...stuck in a failure of imagination..."

"...demented saga greater than Beowulf..."

"Ponce de Leon went looking for the Fountain of Youth..."

"...toward a smooth ending on the tarmac of dreams..."

"...she will not rise until noon..."

"...the window shade down so I can not see out..."

"...another voice selling something I do not want..."

"...long frizzy hair, hippy garb, granny glasses..."

"... determined to drive me insane then kill me..."

"the echo of a shout in the bedroom..."

"met an old buddy on the street..."

"...the "Argonaut of the Spirit" had no more to say..."