from Life in a Pond

4

I HAVE NOTHING BUT ADMIRATION

For the smoldering log

Frog songs piss on

There goes some post-pandemic

Box-top delivery truck

Rejecting a sunset of mountains 

These woods are cold

Her nest is bare

And loving the unread book that fries on 

A blue sky gone black

And not coming back

4

 

 REBURYING MARGARET

Desiring desires

That destroy the self

My favorite part of earth

Is this serious delay

Of no one seen no more