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Aug 24

Nothing Is (What It Is)

Tuesday, 24. August 2010 20:00

the enso

Five white egrets congregate on a bayou flood plain

"Tropical Snowflakes" by marlowe

the poem

Look at this prairie. Those snowflakes
on the tropical breeze are a fluttering flock
of white egrets, birds whose lives
are re-negotiated with each beat
of their elegant wings. It takes
time to get used to, time to repeal.
The bayou looks stagnant, water
green with algae and turtles,
yet currents move
under it, propelling it
to an existence neither
you nor it can foresee. Before
the fisherman’s line becomes
taunt, there is a sea of possibility,
each destiny waiting
to be chosen. In that moment,
you can transform
anything.

Category:Animal, Ephemeral, Human | Comments Off | Autor:

Jul 05

If Kansas Were Candy

Monday, 5. July 2010 18:00

the enso

A harvested wheat field outside Hillsboro, Kansas, in autumn

"Hillsboro, Autumn, 2009" by Mark Hiebert

the poem

this winter sky would be blue
cotton floss, its fluffy entrails
cascading as precipitation, akin to
truth that is stretched like taffy
until it snaps, a piñata of details
that must be separated like chaff. See
the bending licorice trees, the fields
bubbling into ribbons of dark chocolate
with lemon drops as the harvest yield.
Bundles of wheat are butterscotch rounds
dispensed as sweet pills, shiny and accurate,
dotting the horizon from farms to towns.
We could lap it up, this sugary cacophony,
and ride out into a sunset of caramel,
our fingers brushing the moon, its abalone
nougat never quite within our grasp.
We could ride the Arkansas, bob on its swell,
rowing our way past gummy worms and asps,
to land on a prairie of lollipops.

Category:Plant | Comments (4) | Autor:

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