Thursday, October 06, 2005

liii

It’s a dreary day in Arkansas

after the swapmeet

a motorcycle bangs

into the birds’ coffee

at Creekmore Park

I’m settling into

soup from Quetzal

clouds I drove

the night with

olive trees all day

Saturday and

sleepy Charleston

the catty cat’s

napping on a tartan

out the bay windows

a chalk-shot spire

yep that cloudy

the curtains sashay

suggesting exhalations

into the melancholy courtyard

I want a productive

yet relaxful accent

I sure don’t feel like writing

but having my

face hairs trimmed

my love concurs

until I’m spruced