A punishing, fast heat of words
Runs through the sweating crowd
As fell disquiet undergirds
The things uttered aloud
6/24/2022 – twirling shadows
Bright music is playing
Yet I cannot hear it
For my ears
Are turned
Toward thoughts that do not subside
Twirling shadows that infect the corners
Of my mind
6/23/2022 – a haiku
Flowers are blooming
And hot winds blow from the south
Yet I gaze elsewhere
6/22/2022 – nothing more
I love nothing more
Than to put my head on your shoulder
And close my eyes
6/21/2022 – the blood upon my hands
I walked out on the sunburnt ground
And whispered to the breeze
Asked why it hadn’t come around
Brought scents from distant seas
It told me there was trouble out
Upon some distant shore
One I had seldom heard about
Nor cared very much for
And so the wind did leave me there
To blow in far-off lands
And careless I stand in this air
Unseeing of the blood upon my hands
6/20/2022 – a haiku
The sun’s beating down
And we are all pretending
That there’s enough shade
6/18/2022 – who I did it for
I scrubbed clean my house
And the path to the door
And the stones by the path
And the flowers by the stones
And yet I wondered
Who I did it for
6/17/2022 – a haiku
Take my hand in yours
Walk me down your life story
Teach me what is you
6/16/2022 – that I pass by
I have wondered
When I’ve wandered
What secrets I might miss
What unseen truths might hide behind
The trees and stones and rivers that I pass by
6/15/2022 – guardrails in my mind
At the midway mark
I wondered to myself
Whether I ought to have taken another path
And then I recalled
That the branches of the path
Are infinite
The opportunities
Are countless
And the guardrails
Only in my mind
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