Tagged: relationship
A poem that has nothing to do with the worst film ever made…
Sister Ship
This house is unsinkable
I have made it water tight
installed extra bulkheads
to prevent catastrophic
flooding personally inspecting
every single weld and rivet
for signs of wear or defect
No need for lifeboats
I tell the others in response
to their misgivings we’re
fully insured through good
old Lloyd’s of London
only liable if we’re victims of
some unforeseen act of God
i.e. that ice berg you never
spot until it’s far too late
Poem for Sherron
A little ditty I wrote—almost like a gesture sketch—as I watched my wife catching the rays in Jasper National Park, one day after our 20th anniversary:
Pyramid Lake,
Jasper National Park
(July 29, 2010; 3:15 p.m.)
Cupped in a bowl
of rust-colored fingers
sun-glazed and cedar-breathed
becalmed by a lake
that can’t make up its mind
if it’s blue or green…
And there’s you, at the end of the dock,
slow-rocked by the intrauterine tide
skin pinkening
in the magnified light
despite my frequent reminders,
the way I fret over
your unchangeable ways.
