Best Squinting Poems

I squint  just right
And capture a memory almost forgotten
Jars of fruit and honey fresh from hives
Filling shelves in old smokehouse
Home-made butter and molasses
In her kitchen
Waiting to smother
Biscuits warming
On black cast iron wood-stove
Boxes of buttons
An old cameo
Split wood in corner
Old sleepy dog on porch
The house...

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you have a mind
that's it
which in itself is victory
scant though it may be
your mileage may vary 
on this floating grain of sand
he prayed over and over
be far away be far far away
at least he was smart enough to know
what an idiot at prayer he was
not...

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On a momentary sliver of hope,

in the vacuum of a desolate night,

she appears,
in a blazing instant,

a dream perhaps,

a wishful, comforting apparition,

yet she appears.

…

Her breath is warm,
her touch light,
her laughter tender.

She takes my hand,

I hold on,
clinging to the vision,

and,
though she is long gone,

I live the lie,...

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The time between meals
Keeps shrinking.
That's because time is relative,
And we move relatively slower
As we age.

What are we to make of that?
What lesson? What wisdom?
We are waiting for our star,
Our celestial friend,
To climb.

And as it does
The snowbanks of winter
Will be melted,
And we will bask in sunlight,
That...

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