Monday, April 12, 2010

My Task Now


My task is to build a path
out of the rocks I dig up
from the ground of my life.

1 comment:

Dr. Mike said...

Last Space Shuttle


What crumbles in my hand
Is my hand. Mud loses its

Heraldic icons, fossilized
Horsefish becoming sand,

Unburied corpses from
A forgotten epidemic

Fallout that emptied cities
And poisoned the water --

Nobody to wash the feet
Of the dead whose nails

Keep growing. Mud writhes
In my hand, microscopic

As the mechanisms of
Empire feed the mechanisms
Of ants, worms, and insects.

[Disposable Poem April 12, 2010]
Dr. Mike