Collage
1.
wheaty sunhat
red jacket blue jeans
green leaves and stalks
and yellow sunflowers
three terra di sienna faces
and hundreds turned away
from the news
riddled with the temporary
does not apply to vast areas
in the heart
2.
red jacket on a field of green
man woman old young
is it you under the brim
of the wheat-colored hat?
a thousand oily black seeds
spiral in the laden disk
you hold in your artist’s hand
small worlds
in the palm of
a tender god
3.
a tender god’s
weary bleary voice
from the buzzing fields
I was takin’ you home
you never wanted to go
voices like twining ribbons
you let go of my hand
you un-tethered your soul
from the harmonica breeze
we let go
4.
of the news
the temporary
the vast areas in the heart
and the wheaty sunhat
red jacket blue jeans
green leaves and stalks
and yellow sunflowers
three terra di sienna faces
and hundreds turned away
turned away away away
Posted 11/19/10