WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE


who tip the scales 
of one another
towards harmony
coax a full flour moon
on the butcher block 
in patient steady 
swirls
who stop to notice
each other’s tiny rages 
in soothing time 
knowing no small passion 
deserves the total 
flood 
where do these people
live, what bungalows
what lofts, what
wine caves
how wild are
their gardens 
do they play the game
where you find your
stripper name
from the street where you
were born
how were they raised, 
under which doctrines
what paperbacks did their 
English teachers give them
after class
what perfect wisdom
do they recall
in the heat of the morning 
when everything begs
in terrorizing volume 
who made
that wisdom
up

Comments

  1. So good, so much flow, “no small passion deserves the total flood,” “how wild are their gardens,” I love it

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