whining accordions
polka dancers
old women wearing fluffy petticoats
old men in plaid shirts and cowboy hats
Midwestern square dancers
You might be from a small midwestern town
If you know what husking corn means
You might be from Iowa
If your town was full of relatives
You might be from Nebraska
If you have heard the term huskers
You might be from Illinois
If you know a dairy cow from other cows
You might be from a small midwestern town
If your town had a square
You might be from a small town in the Midwest
If you collect money when someone dies
And give it all to the grieving
Spring winds rattle walls
trash cans roll along the street—
No sirens this time
The sun rises in a watermelon sky
Green leaves welcome the newborn light
shivering in the crisp air
Watercolor wings amid the blooming blossoms
flutter in the breeze
The verdant high hills and gentle ravines
awaken to the Meadowlark’s chorus in Nature's melody
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The amateur click
Staggers like
Amateur words
Across stained glass
Autumn and
Skeleton winter
In which black
Water resembles
Not remotely
The sea clear as
Crystal
And echoes only
A shadow of the
Imperfect
A portrait of a façade
Wrinkling with the slightest breath
Like loose skin on taut knuckles
Leaving a mirage
Crude and inaccurate
As the syllables
Describing the phenomenon
In which the
Reflection itself becomes the
Fixation
The blurred image
Vaguely lucid
I am deprived of my old sweet relief,
Turning the page but turn to the leaf.
I spill out myself to sanction some space
To which I can return, try to compensate.
Contemplate and complicate my own design
I find this a fate to which I cannot resign.
Soaking in the petrichor of each night,
Of every solemnly forsaken fight.
Each decision and each disappointment
So boldly displayed in my temperament.
I need this safety net below me always to move
Even one step forward toward what I pursue,
Simple answers and the life good enough
Hoping life itself does not call my bluff.
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