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Faith In God

God
Is the love
That exists
In the space
In between
You and
Me and
Her and
Them and
Today in
His smile
When he handed his nine year old sister her
Toob animals and
Catapult and
Braced for the hugs and kisses
He was sure would come and
Did

entitlement

if only
escaping the heat was as easy as
escaping poverty

seasonal garbage

a field filled with
dandelions is like a
television filled up with
reality television

frozen nostalgia

at this time of year
ice skating is all about
frozen nostalgia

more is in the air

the air is thick and
nothing like the chocolate
banana cupcakes
I
Made
Last
Night
Which
Had
Too
Much
Banana
And
Crept
Around
The
Cookie
Sheet
A
Little
More
Than
It
Should
Have
Before
It
Settled
Down
And
Baked
Up
Perfectly
Delicious

Hansel, Gretel, and Me

As I go
I leave behind me
Words
Like bread crumbs
Hoping
If I find myself in an oven and
Have to retreat
I'll have a lot of trouble
Finding my way back

Look Away

A smile

Can be hard to take in and

Easy to take

Which is why

When my son smiles at me

I sometimes have to look away 

It's why

On any sunny day

My mind 

Is always on sunscreen

Continuous Confusion

Commercials cost money
Like most everything in commercials
Like most furniture
Which you need a lot of
When you buy a house
With twice as many rooms as your last home
I wonder
How my half empty house
Feels about it

Summer Stretching

In the summer
Life really takes place
In between
Lawn owing
Episodes
Inch long grass
Signalling
The promise and threat of a new start and
The attractiveness and persistence of
Procrastination

I bought a rotary phone

I bought a rotary phone
From an antique store
Because AT&T makes it cheaper to have a land line
Than to not have one and
Why not
Go to an antique store to purchase
Something
That was a fixture of the house
I grew up in
Only ours were brighter colored and
Wall mounted and
Relied upon
For
Phone calls
Which is why
I bought a rotary phone

Forty One

At forty one
I finally can see a Phillip Levine poem
Sales routes, cosmoline, and all
Playing out on the pages of the book
Like a great old war movie or
A drive across a dusty road out west somewhere
In a 1971 Lincoln Continental
One old motel after the other
Calling out and
Fading away
It may be the plastic daisy shaped magnifying glass or
It may be
That I am finally able to forgive Detroits
It's 1970s excesses and excuses
At forty one

spring refresher

a cool breeze and
an unbroken light blue sky
refresh memory

April 22... Snow

snow after tax day
is not the sort of refund
folks were hoping for

Parenting

Parenting is about imagination
It is usually
Equivalent
To trying to convince someone it is spring
Despite snow showers
Not by sitting down with a calendar
But by setting up a sprinkler
Donning a swimsuit and
Sunscreen and
Running about the yard
Screaming really loudly

balloons don't break bowls, boys do

He is in his third day of a balloon obsession
Bouncing
All over the house and
I have no doubt that he could keep it going and
Going
All week long and
Beyond
If the balloon could
But by Friday it will probably be the size of a bb pellet and
I will be able to breathe freely again
Even though I am sure popular wisdom is right that
Balloons don't break bowls, vases, and picture frames
Boys do

unfinished

sunny and eighty
then windy, wet, and fifty
One step forward and ...

Slipping In

I slip into the bed
Every night
After midnight
Like a soldier
Into the bunker
After a little moonlighting
Doing reconnaissance
Hand reaching out for you and
Eyes always on the horizon
Taking it for granted
That if there are vermin in there with us
I already know them well and
That they will not wake me
Affect tommorow's battle or
Keep me from slipping off my socks before
I slip into bed

I won't be going into appliance repair, but ...

Our refrigerator doesn't keep our food cold enough any more or

At least not for now

Not until the repair guys arrive and

I suppose it could be said that 

While our country isn't functioning properly in a lot of ways

That too is only temporary

For there are lots of folks offering their assistance and

We the People are not among them

Of course

Under no condition should I ever attempt to mess with freon for

Whatever the use

Unlike the country

It works a lot better without my meddling

the future of hydration and snacking hops into mind each unsesonaly warm day

desalination
good for water and popcorn
so smile in summer