Sweet Tedium
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:49 pm
Each and every oh-so-wonderful day
a lumbering oaf waddles a woodsy way
past grassy paths trimmed by him two inches in height
(and twice-a-week inspected by bare eye and candlelight)
to a lime-green willow for shade and pillowy crop
of well-washed rock to hum and place toe and thumb on top.
Five unequal elbow-lengths pace to a chicken-wire pen
where siren blue pencils egg to be counted again and again
times ten, and only then does this not-old hat-fearing man
bloat back future the sad umbrella, grieving socks on hand,
peek up, left and down but never around--of this he's certain--
for bliss by door windowless, to sit and sew imaginary curtain.
a lumbering oaf waddles a woodsy way
past grassy paths trimmed by him two inches in height
(and twice-a-week inspected by bare eye and candlelight)
to a lime-green willow for shade and pillowy crop
of well-washed rock to hum and place toe and thumb on top.
Five unequal elbow-lengths pace to a chicken-wire pen
where siren blue pencils egg to be counted again and again
times ten, and only then does this not-old hat-fearing man
bloat back future the sad umbrella, grieving socks on hand,
peek up, left and down but never around--of this he's certain--
for bliss by door windowless, to sit and sew imaginary curtain.