Saturday, September 17, 2022

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The Squee of a Forlorn Queen

     Home is place of permanent work
                        —Edmund Berrigan

Do I want to be a jade tree?
I don’t know about the hobo.
Fourteen times I twirl around
until the paper floats in swirls

above my head. My notes
about the end of life. And
its beginning. That’s a couple
of things that just cannot be seen.

Fourteen fruits into the juicer.
A continent of ice would be
nice at a time like this. At a
time like this, so would bliss.

The car, a Jaguar, goes har-har. A
fleeced sheep stares up at the geese.

the squee of a forlorn queen