Monday, July 13, 2020

All Forests / Flotsam

"All Forests"

Hello.
I don't know you.
I don't know people.
What tribes, what living quarters?
I want to live there --
How am I supposed to find such a connecting force?
Let awe inspire us.
Let awe fulfill us
that we might see the great trees of all forests.

* * *

"Flotsam"

how far drifted have I?
I am flotsam
and you seemed like an anchor
of some kind--

there is this legend, this mythology
that I am mad, desperate or crazy
but really, I've been impaled so many times
the spear has become me--

I don't mean to offend or deceive--
I don't trust you,
but I have you inside me.