Thursday, September 17, 2020

away from the sea these twenty plus years


 

-away from the sea these twenty

plus years, 


this now is my driftwood:

the staying-put roots, legs

of them that's twisted in

the lowering level of the river

-fed pond.  what's gone, beyond

it, blond.  what's gone common

grey and water new enough to

such an oracle as these roots,

i wonder and want it to after

i've wondered, doesn't it 

look up in an awe to the blackend

underneath, what's hid from me,

leaning my knees between

the pinch in the rail, confessing,

bless me?

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