Hegemony of shrubbery and trees
Bows out chain link fences along country roads.
County diesel trucks cut down
Greenery an inch level to the ground.
Fences being overgrown
Owners cut inside.
Only disembodied knuckles left
Of wood to shake against the wind.
Beer drinking high school boys
Stand in speeding cars
Play mailbox base ball: home runs
For all unlikely correspondence lost.
Red flags rusted at their sides
Nothing coming in or going out.
They stood and now lie agape
At the emptiness they might have held.
Like my father slack-jawed
Dead below his antiseptic sheet,
Gob-smacked at his
Instant recompense.
Memorial tribute to my pup Cale 17 October 2014 to 5 June 2015
The scar that’s cut inside of me, sucks the living life from me. Just one more moment spent with you, that’s all I’m living for.
I know that it can never be, but hope I do and hope is free. Just one more moment spent with you, that’s all I’m living for.
My constant yearn to have you close, out of all I’ve lost, I miss you most. An unmet wish for one last kiss, that’s all I’m longing for.
What gifts you gave in your short life, unconditional love, pure and true, helped me through much trouble and strife. Just one more moment spent with you, that’s all I’m living for.
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