Category: ohthatwright

URINE trickles away, yet not regret, as I lean on prickly
HEDGE. I can’t go on like this. Dizzy head craning up to sky, I find it:
NORTH star above—even drunk, I can plot the dipper’s handle.
LASSO me, Polaris, a stable place from which to change.

RALPH along the bank staked claim for gold and named the river Ralph.
INGOTs, not names of rivers, shone upon golden ingots to his imagination,
COVET so much a thing it becomes all: Ralph saw only gold.
AMITY never took hold along the river Ralph.

BRAKE, gloom and cease: grey mood release!
AORTA ferrying air to every cell, carry forward joy as well.
OPERA or chorale now sound of many strands one chord in beauty crowned.
HASTY claim of fate’s iron law, replaced by free and wondering awe.

WORDY me, gab my way through every turning.
ORDER, grace must run in depths beneath shallow speech.
SCOFF. Condemn. These beckon, false channels for words to wend.
SPOOL of grace, unwind a thicker strand to thread me past my gift of gab.

FLUFF of dandelions, floating over meadows, in my dream.
REARM yourself, creation, at springtide rise!
WEEDY shore bank in my mind, green and flowered,
BROOK whispering by under a sun that warms. When?

SONIC spark: the radio starts the song, filling the
SHACK–that plus radio are her capital. She often dreams of
CABIN life, several rooms, maybe a TV. But this is her song!
BROOM caught up, she dances across the packed dirt floor.

VOILA, brave new world at my command in one device.
SILLY pursuits easier now, along with serious, perhaps.
AWAKE at night, chasing rabbit trails on a glowing screen.
PHONE, oh such potential! But soul, you struggle to deliver.

EPOXY, superlative substance of stick,
TORUS, shape that sounds so svelte,
THOSE are premium for purposed prose,
CANNY in their usual use. Yet, weird in poem’s lines.

VIGIL at the sickbed, weary drifting up the prayers.
SERUM, final, fragile hope, a life to coax and death arrest.
VAPID flit some thoughts unwelcome, lift up gaze for help:
CRANE, through glass, above the bay, lonely crosses sky.