Short Infestations Poems

I ran a scan for infestations
looking to rid all the complications

the viruses through my heart still course
the heartaches and their remorse

the scan says all herein is clean
I think it's wrong...that's what I believe

or it's embedded way too deep
I know it's there I feel it seep...

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Time place
scope and space
recover planning with
hazmat desires
actions by dissent 
proportions to unoutcomes
serial deliverance by
traveling non neural pathways
around psycho resilience via 
domestico-dysfunshun 
huma huma incestations fielding
familial inbred infestations
leading to blind intonations thereby
catapulting negative Ego equations.
Can we abide by selfless endeavors?...

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Autumn’s rumor
is spread in turning trees,
revealed like stains
on hems
of far Missouri hills.

Few search
or care or know
your soft fruit—
few dare taste
tart sweetness—
trouble
to spoon aside
infestations
of seeds.

Like seasons,
they go to waste—
not savored,
unused, unappreciated—
burled relatives,
overripe pawpaws
past remembering,
lingering
as age spots of early fog
on winter’s 
stern harvest....

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We seine them up
like dust
in pollen-stained hands,
briefly weight them,
balancing them in minds,
determining worth,
profundity. 

And like those before,
we toss them absently
into wind—
winnowing maple seeds—
whirling them from us—
as we shape lives,
change destinies.

Now, 
they seem to flit
to nothingness,
like us—
pale night insects
pestering
opal moons,
infestations of night
thickly settling
on the liquid glass
of our tongues....

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