Thursday, December 26, 2024

On Record of Afternoons


It seemed strange we were

always in awe.

That someday we will

 want to know

the projections seriously arrived at.

A flourish of flowers 

against the pavement.

What may ruffle the tags

gleam across the mountain.

The cat changes position

and we are closer now.

Especially on the record of afternoon.

Surely we will have to arrange 

the table for lunch.

And ask for music to follow.

Say our sentences exceed

a large in parentheses colored wing.

Whispers on the water. 

Only a bowl of oatmeal lies 

between me and the moon

Seeing it again, it grows softer

It is coming out like the stars 

Come out oh magnificent cause

Now, in my new eyes. 

The music will still be perfectly wonderful

It outlives our letters  simply there against  the thrashes of loneliness  among the check out counters,  wildly spaced  like the words in a...