Friday, May 1, 2020

The Ordinary Returns to Shutesbury, Massachusetts



As women flutter about like bats
and pollinate every table
with goldenrods, one begins
to acknowledge the sheer “O” one
feels from being alone in a field.
This adds to the clouds over
head because they are apart
of so many wider “Os”
A girl rolling her ankle under
a toboggan. The dog lapping
up the banana pudding.
Coition brings a chain of them.
While a roller coaster one long
“Whoa.” And, oh yes, the “oh” of forgetfulness.

In a few hours you see this  O another way.
A man wants to finish undressing you.
“There are so many fucking robins,” you try to say
but slip and “robbers” fit.
A heaping of salamanders break for the pond.
But suddenly, a smile breaks across a child’s
face, handing you his finished dinner plate.

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