On Grudges
Grudges are like hedgehogs.
Be careful how you hold them.
And never juggle with them.
Seriously, don’t.
Hide and Seek
[I]t’s harder for him to mean something than say – A.R. Ammons
Meaning hid in the words.
The last place anyone would look.
These days anyways.
And no one looked.
No one looked.
No one ever looked.
And that… hurt.
Tuesday (or in might’ve been a Friday)
Wrote a little poetry.
Made no difference.
Same ol’ same ol’.
Actually, I think it was Sunday,
Quotidian
Every day I forget a little.
I eat a little, sleep a little,
forget a little…
actually, sometimes I do forget to eat but
I never forget to forget.
Either way it gets a little
easier every day.
Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years for which he blames Larkin, who probably blamed Hardy. He has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels.
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