catalyzing chaos
Into the earth I sink
Waves gently lapping at my toes
Soft grass cradles me
Astounded once more by how water breathes
And attempts to inhale me deeper in
With each great sigh of its ebb and flow
Tiny feet skip across the shallow surface of the pond
Clinging to the jagged rock faces
Rising from the silt
Giggles echo off the water
One girl cascades into the other
They tumble into the water like river stones
These Appalachian mermaids
Their grandmother was a water witch
She cursed them with a relentless craving
A weakness to the siren’s call
A destiny of being drawn back
To claim once more the healings powers
Of their ancestral waters
days of rain
endless storms
dreary and sleepy
but the sun, finally
blissfully warm
bright and airy
give me summer
for a little while
at least
Walking down the familiar, pothole garnished hill
Thinking of different meadows, greater heights
With peaks built of dreams waiting to be found
Dusty, sunny wind drifting down
A warm glow flickers by,
Breaking the disassociation, catching my eye
A sight everyone knows,
Your first lightning bug of the summer,
A reminder that you can always come home
Do I have to stop thinking about you? No.
I am in outer space while in inner space, alone.
What worlds can we explore, together,
Fellow astronaut and astronomer?
Saw seven deer this evening
making my way down Stark Ridge
as the sun sank down behind the hills.
The deer didn’t flip their fluffy white tails
and float over the nearest fence.
It’s their favorite time of the day,
dawn and dusk, crepuscular creatures
with soft eyes and hide the color
of the golden hour.
The fresh young does leapt leisurely
and daintily off the center line
and stuck the landing in a grassy field
to stare me down as I drove by, slow,
window wide open to the night air
and stuck there.
None of us were in any hurry.
My list of summer resolutions includes the following items:
-learn to send a text message without adderall.
-scrub the fine black webbing off the side of my car.
-spit sticky letters ad infinitum, acid or sugar.
-see it from every angle, let it peel me back and bite.
-push my shame into traffic and watch it get flattened.
