Tag: poemoftheday

  • 1st st speaks

    pt 1 it starts, Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line Baltimore Maryland Herring Run Jones Falls Gynn Falls Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line Gynn Falls Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line say it again againSay it out loudPiedmont regionrepeat after me Piedmont region Piedmont region Atlantic Seaboard Fall LineRepeat several xPhysiography. repeat againagain again find your ownBeat ~ physiographic i…

  • Those first thick gusts of spring

    We are driving out to the island the second Monday in a row for me, a Monday ago in the buoyant warm of growing moon gibbous round and all those first thick gusts of spring, and now Tom and I, a totally spontaneous date the tidewater springs and gullies high with rain the echo cacophony…

  • i see the storm we go south in

    (or, cypress calling home~) the way it happens is the weight of the wet gray sky landing all in my hair making it so it is all i can breathe of the air backyard woods beneath the three galant ladies triumph tulip poplars ancient mama owl face mother night she prays and prays ladies wet…

  • to walk a long mile

    green as Moss headed a light in the skyblooms tiny as the lady’s, the saint’s wee flowers pushing the dry earthagainst itself crackingground i count grace we walk a long while, pass three oaks all of us carrying candles litby her flame we walk a long mile under the grey gyres of sky the blossoming…

  • when i was young &

    when i was young & first started talking to god i told iti wanted to work in a rehab for my first real job, and was sure that’s what god would’ve wanted, and then it didn’t come through and i didn’t understand god didn’t want that for mee x e m p tion, explai nation…