Home Stretch...

3.1  Crossing Over

Beings on a higher plane

painted on a stone slab

grounded here for service

until spirit shoves wide

the false door

revealing a land to which

we are all bound

and makes our stored jars

of bread and beer and jewels

seem foolish

when all we ever needed

to pack was words.

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3.2  Prison Break

And even the hyacinth—

that dreadful poeticism—

would be welcomed

like the father and his

only fatted calf

if only this winter

would fling wide the gate

on Spring’s prison and

return her full-bosomed

and smiling as if she had

never been behind those

cold steel bars.

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3.3  Trucking

Tethered to the machine

by a vague guilt

a “should” like the one scrawled

on the note kept

stuck to the wall

above this battered desk

but this one not stricken

at least not yet

perhaps after twenty-seven

seeds germinate and sprout

then the spring will come

but how can we make it there

without this glorious sun?

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3.4  Heathers

That razor wire drawl

draws even this man

into the squint

of a gun barrel

to be launched in a twist

directly into the bare chest

of a man who only wanted

what everyone wants

an easy road

and some head—

even if it’s shared.

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