Thank you Sanctuary magazine for including my latest untitled poem in this month’s issue!
April is National Poetry Month
Tag: poetry
Just One More
If it’s just one meeting
or just one hour
Just one assignment
one committee
one fire;
Just one correction
weekend
or call
sacrifice
apex
and fall
If it’s just one more minute
or morsel to chew
If it’s just one more,
the machine is irrelevant
and the product is you.
Jcs/21
Poetry: 12.20 / untitled
Five-minute Poem 6.2016
There’s a breeze in the air
and big flowering bushes are taking over the sidewalks
much to everyone’s glee,
as they peruse the outdoor menus and those windows-full of over priced, raw cotton caftans.
Normal June, plain-old-tourist town. Nothing has changed as the season rolls in.
The world is churned-out, wobbling on its axis. We’re dizzied by death and think pieces.
But the breeze in the Berkshires still blows.
wall pockets
(C) jcs 2006
Breaking down the ash and rock
existing now just to hinder and trip.
With a pick, with an axe, with a torch —
Laying at the table the practical,
pulling from grey matter fantastical;
switching the spoils from hand to hand,
weighing, comparing, flinging over the fence
little flecks, little specks, the occasional bright bauble
in an effort to winnow, to burrow, and strike.
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