Friday, November 6, 2020

poem with the sun in its eyes

I try not to pay attention 

to the date or the hour,

the numbers never add up

and we’re stuck on today.

So I fill my belly and 

watch the signs,

the stacking of the dishes,

the raptor above the pines,

dogs pace and flies gather in

that long last light,

the afternoon a shorthand as

the earth bows and bows.

Doves and squirrels 

to rock the feeders, hawks and 

vultures to hold the sky.

I jot down words as

the sun worries away the west,

transparent chitinous wings

rise and dive through 

the ray streaked distance 

the blinding we were bound to

arrive at leaning over

us glib remainders,

us found poems. 

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