CURRENTLY AMBLING AIMLESSLY
The
sun
and the
sky today
look like a flashlight
trying to shine through a thick wool
blanket, and a lone falcon or hawk (I can never
remember the difference) is hunkered down
out of the wind on a sagging telephone
line that hangs parallel to the two-lane highway I’m
currently ambling aimlessly
along from one no-
where special
to the
next
and
the
next
and the
next, it seems,
ad infinitum…
RIGHT ABOUT THE TIME
Old
chair
rocking
with the wind
on the front porch, screen
door slamming every now and then,
flurry of leaves skittering up and down the street, from
yard to yard and drive to drive, then back again,
plastic grocery bags darting about
like drunken birds playing catch me if you can, cats and
dogs conspicuously absent
from the scene and that’s
right about
the time
that
the
dark
sky
decides
to transform
and show us its teeth
Jason Ryberg is the author of twenty-two books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless love letters (never sent). He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books.
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