Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Mistakes
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Nine Three
I missed him today,
there were none of his rainbows,
no phone ringing,
no hugs,
no whispers of what would happen at the line of scrimmage,
no photos that I could keep for longer than us and know it at the time,
no binoculars,
no yellow cotton short sleeved shirts or baby powder,
no navy jacket or khakis,
no hats with embroidery,
no leaves covering his sign,
but there would be again
one day,
one day around the bend
Friday, September 2, 2022
Pointed Arrows
I wish I'd stop talking about all the things I didn't do,
that was air,
that was time,
that was that way,
that could be clarions,
and proxies,
and skyscrapers,
and all the things I loved to love.
It could be,
In better loved silence, it very well could be.
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Aperitif Anger And Then Some
Bulwark
1934, March
Lessons in the Heat
I told you when we handed you a pen it would be the beginning of the end,
the ripe passage of your fairy tale,
but you did not listen,
you did not care —
and so I went on about my business,
buying oil colors,
and crayons,
and things that would only bring chaos
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Faux Sought
So we’re just going to pretend that things were perfect,
above board even,
for a good long while,
until we snap —
until then,
which,
to be honest,
would be very, very soon —
1943, Too
We got better and better,
and time wasn’t helping,
but the lines weren’t forming as fast as they said they would —
the lines weren’t going anywhere,
just hovering for anxiety,
for stature,
for more or less what we already knew —
Two Goes
Of course they did,
there wasn’t a loyal bone in their body,
not one —
but we knew that,
we just chose to conveniently forget it time and again —
time and again
Friday, August 26, 2022
Late Night, Eight Nineteen of Ninety Two
He was the first of the season,
with a capital A,
extraordinary when you think about it now,
it was just a wave,
a brush up,
on the other side of the world,
until, like all of us,
it hardened,
tightened,
and buckled down —
for the worst,
even by its own powdered hand,
was yet to come —
Twenty Fourth of Ninety Two
There was blood in the water,
coming from my nose,
though I thought it was the drip, drop from the ceiling,
the gurney was uncomfortable —
painful even,
too much to bear,
but I didn’t realize it then,
I was seeing purple lightning,
and the haunting, ghostly hissing of the wind waiting in heat —