Coward to speak out loud

Coward to speak out loud

Thoughts buried surfacing

Clouds forming in clear skies 

A weather worsening

Striving for Stoic strength 

Exact time, feet grounded

Altering my outlook 

Far from the unfounded

Such rubber and rubbish

Such rubber and rubbish

Graffiti on paper

Hollow like a ship’s hull

Or empty skyscraper 

Plasma replacements and

Type O blood transfusions 

Compared to eight lines of

Poorly drawn conclusions 

Exclamation points up ¡¡¡

Exclamation points up   ¡¡¡

The sunflower field stems

After the party and

After their yellow gems

The past and the future

Meeting beneath this sky

The present split second

Time curves containing pi

Here for you, gravity

Here for you, gravity

As we let balloons go

We’re treading wet cement

Where statues start to grow

With lost shoes and lost socks

Our toes must find the grass

Here for you, carry you

In time, this too, will pass

Tragedy averted

Tragedy averted 

Are we in a clearing

Out from pylon forests

And gripping wheel steering 

Are we catching our breath 

Circumstances stacking

In a moment of peace

Reduced to weed whacking 

Self-reflecting frankness

Self-reflecting frankness

Assessing my mistakes

Seeking approval and

Not letting off the breaks

Broken boundaries found

Then struggles to be free

Gaining independence

Building fences in me

Aging in the footnotes

Aging in the footnotes

Outside myself seeing

The long landscape sloping

And the season fleeing

Unable to get back

To a place I am from

Coordinates as small

As a small pitted plum