Showing posts with label Marlene Burns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marlene Burns. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Pleasant messages


The day smiles
with no sun glasses
I’d not noticed you
testing
the hands converting shoulders
tired of temperance
at surface snow/rain
inches/degrees of temptation
debris of winter businesses

under the cool sun
stopped seeing it as disaster
eye to eye signature
we say:
this or better, we’re grateful
wet or dried
when a silica sand
in withered asphalt
the pavement isn't  slippery

our numb/wild joints stiff
jumping jacks & jello help
release the blocked flow
feel our aggregates & wheels?
some pain relief, at least
we alive,
breath satisfyingly

recording
trembling voice mixed with
delta music for insomnia
slight accent
don’t disturb
frozen ears & eyes
looking wide open to distant wall
with new window-screen
kids game
screech-screaming after the school
what a music for soul after 24/7
heater’s  ommm….

we deaf …loudly
call each other
on barbarian languages
send messages different
from urban smelled porches
for leaf on the tree
not by misfortune
growing here,
now flowed away…
that another life
waiting for friends
going on…

pleasant messages
the winds channel
at Sunday’s brunch
for local crows
such release…

I’m here too,
smell…breathe…through


Sunday's Whirligig #46 by MMT


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