Bloody Brook

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook. - Thoreau

daily trek up the big hill to deliver the news

stopping at the bottom in the woods

examining this not-so-wide-eyed wonder

a brook rumored to have been the site of a skirmish between the native americans and early settlers

with my fashioned, measuring stick

stick that was also a guitar and a gun

guitar that sang in perpetuity and gun that never ran out of bullets

oh what fun

gurgling through the willows

me and the brook talking and playing with god

my own lord of the flies

holding our secrets

parting that stream like moses did the red sea

meandering through the meadows

babbling indelible prose

each of us choosing not to ever disclose

Author's Note

“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.” - Thoreau