Hurricane Rain

dogs bark harshly at nothing seen

a shrinking sky obscuring

it's coming as sure as louisiana drowns

the old church bell tolls loneliness less me

sees what there is to see

meet the newly half blind man

weeping trees

the brown stream through the heart

races crazily from here to there

the shoeless girl holding her shoes high

clinging black dress black umbrella spinning

splashes happily

on her way

to her only

eternity

 

jppestana

Hurricane Rain

8.30.2020

Collection

if I could only remember you

what you showed me when 

my sight was dimmer 

than the lost caves 

of my youth

in my usual stumble

I see impenetrable clouds towering

brilliantly impossibly blue they collect me 

push me to the edge

did you ask me 

what they were

and below me sweetgum and sassafras

easy growing willows

a mottled sun straining to be seen 

in the last days 

of collected

puddled 

rain

Collection

jppestana

8..23..2020

 

Collection

 

if only I could remember you
what you showed me when
my sight was dimmer
than the lost caves
of my youth
in my usual stumble
I see impenetrable clouds towering
brilliantly impossibly blue they collect me
push me to the edge of this
did you ask me 

what they were

what they mean

wonder aloud about my helpless soul
and below me sweetgum and sassafras
easy growing willows sway

a mottled sun trapped 

in the knotted grass

of collected

puddled
rain

 

Collection
jppestana
8..23..2020