Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Moot


The inexplicit

Light comes and changes
Everything

When it leaves
For crying out loud, don’t

Think about it.



Monday, September 19, 2011

Photograph: Homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940


What is it

That makes this man, knife in hand
Getting ready to cut a head of cabbage
More than the sum of his parts?

I don’t pretend to know the full answer
But I can see that look
Of reverence towards that lowly
Head he is about to sacrifice
Gives me part of it:

Here is a man thankful
For all the simple things
That make up a life, even when
He has to part with them.




Saturday, September 17, 2011

Earth Angel on the Horizon

Suspended

Between the sensible
And the celestial,

I wait for that animated miracle
That will keep me from falling

Out of the sky.



Friday, September 16, 2011

Scum Bag


Not having anything wholesome
To offer the hoi polloi,

I’ll just give them

The benefit of the doubt
And give myself

Wholly away.


Thursday, September 15, 2011

First Time at Bat: Advice to the Slugger

Son, you just

keep your eye
on the ball

and stay away
from slimebags

as you touch
all three bases

on your way
back home.

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