Vernon Witmer Poet Prose Poetry

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I Don'T Understand You Any Better Any More

I don’t understand you any better anymore
reaching under floorboards of my father’s pickup truck 
lost inside imagination 
left with haunting resignation
I don’t understand you any better anymore
after spilling words
clawing through the growing weeds
walking backwards over needs
swimming upstream in 
yesterday’s pea soup 
gone cold
I don’t understand you any better anymore
sights and sounds, paintings and prints 
long vows, short stints
Phil and Oprah, Charlie Rose
this and that and these and those 
each day ends with bloody nose
I don’t understand you any better anymore
tried not trying, walking out 
running back to your attack
stealing moments peeled from bottoms deck
carved or pared or shouting what the heck
I don’t understand you any better anymore
so easy merging 
two chameleons sharing light
now dark, sandpaper rough
surprise, the look inside each other’s eyes 
slips of tips of fingers 
we’ve forgotten
I don’t understand you any better anymore
walking through the door I’m gone
no longer there to care for cures that kill
I miss what I’m no longer longing for
had my fill
I don’t understand you any better anymore
it doesn’t fit like it used to do
un-curved limbs branching through
a love no more than chance
different moves to someone’s different dance 
leases in release of hope
currents, eddies, moving through
to meet the day somehow I may 
understand you better than I knew

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