concerning inspiration

The world, unrecognizable now, is full of curves.

Note to myself: THE WORLD IS FULL OF CURVES.

I left the mall early just to be downright hot, and

rolled my tee shirt sleeves up as if holding there

in it's folds a pack of Lucky Strikes.

My sister owned a Mexicano's Gremlin in the 70's

with it's curved sides and tilt steering wheel

until everything on it fell off in the street. See what I mean?

Having owned a single thing in life might mean

you've curved your thinking around want and desire;

feeling and forgetting, all in poet time of course,

where mystical ship props up the axle, pulls off the size 13 flat

in the snow. Says to you, lonely and heartbroken, that it's ok

now that those who use to hold your tiny hand in warm rooms

are gone on. That the heavy-cloaked, inexorable badness

hovers silently waiting patiently for another calamity  to happen.

And when it does' we will name it inspiration

and lay like the dead in our beds staring

at that which might stumble out

from beneath it's  lavender fields.

Reviews

[Beccy]

Those curveballs, impossible to predict; but then again, how boring life would be if we could chart the ship's course, be hardly worth the voyage.

As for want and desire, rather like one's muse, if it comes, it comes; and I like that every day is different, as I suspect you do.

Beccy.

[h d e rushin]

so true my friend....thanks for those words Beccy....dana

[Ken Simm.]

You ask see what I mean? And I reply I do perfectly. This is a skill that trancends talent.

[www]

I like this piece. It feels like a narrative to a film with amazing cinematography. I like the story telling, the flow and the imagery I visualize. This is so detailed, carefully written and lovely.

[emmajoy]

'.. might stumble out .. from beneath it's lavender fields.'

Maybe whatever happens -whichever and whenever, we juggle negative and positive and make -ive something different: ' I've' - I've won an extra thought.. moment.. smile.. tear.. but.. hey I've won a pause worth having.

You write with such care, not that stiff precise emotionless stuff. but truths wrapped in reality.. worth reading more than twice.

[W.k.kortas]

I suppose it's a bit simple to say that when life gives you turds, you make chocolate milk, but you have, in all caps to boot, hit upon somethingdeep and deeply true here; while life has certain inexorables, it also has any number of little, almost imperceptible, forks in the road, the things that make life life. It is these little things that give life meaning, that (and I think you would agree) we have to give meaning--that is, I susoect, the essence of inspiration, the purpose of what we do here.

[h d e rushin]

thank you my dear friend......dana