In the tall green grass.

Just thinking.

Dad's been bone sine 94. Is he

but bones and Silhueta now?

Has mistrust pulled tight

around his skull, gnashing at truth

with those Liberace teeth.

Could it be, in the future, our selves,

reborn to flesh like worsted woven weft threads:

Schoolteacher, day laborer, quasi farmer who hated the lash.

Line worker, slapping bumpers on

LeBaron's. His hair

standing tall on his head like field lilies. Not now.

Too much grief for someone in a sear-sucker suit and gators.

Too much pain for the poet in the durag holding his

finger waves down like a tiger.

The porch you and Janae sat on,

a tree branch has blown clear through

and

you can look up and see the stars from

the nap of the aluminum lawn chair you've sat on.

And it is clear. 

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

People work themselves to the bone all of their lives...poets write of pain all their lives...that aluminum lawn chair gets worn...but the life, each life makes a difference and that "is clear."
Liberace teeth is a really good image...
And I relate to the tall green grass with my recent visit to Vermont....and overgrown pastures that used be perfect paintings, each one of them.
j.

[h d e rushin]

well said Jacob. I wish to visit Vermont just to see a cow in a pasture. Which I've never seen. Now, that will be a poem worth writing...lol/ thanks my friend. dana.

[emmajoygreen]

Needed to read your words three times because each view creates a scene, an emotion, a memory you've been generous enough to share. Many and sincere thanks for nudging such a clear reminder that whatever and however a Man's Life - it weights gold.

'you can look up and see the stars from
the nap of the aluminum lawn chair you've sat on.
And it is clear

Stars, clarity: what more and better can a human be given! Sadly beautiful, sir.

[h d e rushin]

thank you dearest. Your poems move me like never before. dana

[emmajoygreen]

What a generous review to leave me - thank you so very, very much! Hope life is treating you with a smile and hug!