Thursday, November 25, 2021

Total Zeitgeist

24 November 2021


Her gift was to have

Friends who disliked each other

Ignored each other


Her sainthood from fear

Of being orphaned again

“I don’t want to talk”


For she might offend

Those of us so easily

Offended  micro


Chips of difference

Embedded in Brain, as he

Said it, Jakobson


I    stuck in wood desk

Giggled, lack of definite

Article    left side


Of Brain, right side of

Brain, its company we keep

Unable to see


Any traffic but

In front or behind, inner

Vehicles get lost


On roads, those nearer

Home moving far away    he

Pulled out a map she


Said, landing small plane

On Moloka`i and she

Wondered if he knew


One from another

Island partitioned by sea

Turtles, flying fish


Breaching whales, private

As our friend until the need

To breathe draws us out


“She drew me in,” he

Said, after she refused to

Talk    his voice breaking


At memory which is

Absence ill fitted with words

Like hammering nails


Where there are no boards

Old pianos ironic

Practice makes perfect



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