NOBODY’S COMING FOR ME

                                    

And why would they?

I’m a white, male, American

by some lights disappeared into age

Immigrant grandparents

from a safe country i.e. white

No matter what

if you’re white, you’re alright

I’m deep in the disease of d’s

disordered, disgusted, depressed

can’t open a news feed without

disturbances of brain and gut

Yeats’ beast

is half grown

strinding through power

smashing statuary

coming for somebody

but

Nobody’s Coming for Me

not now…not yet.

RW

Seattle

07.19.2019

(photo of pastel: Jim O'Neil/flickr ((no infringement intended))

OBJECTIVELY AGHAST

I’m to read

at an open mic -

protest poems

I’m having a hard time

getting my thoughts together

What are you protesting?

            Whadda ya got

to misquote a Wild One

Protest:  to state an objection

That covers everything (for me)

from almond milk to xenophobia

I object to the fact there are so many fucking things to object to!

Maybe that will be my next protest sig(h)n.

Ah, your Honors

            I protest

            I object

            I oppose

            I am against

            & aghast

that –

these truths we hold to be self evident – aren’t

and furthermore…

RW

Seattle

07/15/2009

FIELD NOTES @ 939

                                                        (highcountrygardens.com)

Field Notes

Seattle @ 939

07.04.2019

At 3:15

the breeze

returns

trees

resume

their

songs

&

elocutions

bees

come

to

blue catnip

two

white moths

jitterbug

across

the

lawn.

3:20

breeze

flips

the

pages

of

this week’s

New Yorker

to

centerfold

of

dark

arms & hands

rich

red & charcoal

fabrics.

At 3:20

Reggie

awakens

from her nap

on

Barbara Ellen’s

blue green

quilt

Reggie

is

wearing

coral slacks –

     rolled to her calves

a dark blue shirt

a blue

& white

striped

sun hat

her

head

has been

resting

on

a

red

pillow

“That was a lovely nap”

          she says.

I have been sitting in a red plastic Adirondack style chair and attest to the veracity of these observations.

Sincerely,

RW

Seattle

07.04.2019

OH, MY LITTLE CHICKADEE

Backyard bird

so small

it would fit

whole

in my mouth

and peep

between my lips.

My friend

would lean over

and ask

what…what

wondering

just what O.G.

was going on about.

Bird

wet & warm

would

finally

burst out

after

gnats

hovering

near-by.

My friend

would miss

the great escape

and wonder

why O.G. looked

so

surprised.

RW

Seattle

07.02.2019

HUNGRY WATER

Coffee @ 25^th & Union

Strolling past

like Christ on a Crutch

Everything owned

attached to battered-ness

or in shopping carts

Contact or greeting

a baited hook in

hungry water

Reverse fishing

make the cast

become the catch

No current strong enough
to allay – can you spare…

Eyes and smile

Neither Jew nor gentile

neither black nor white nor native

but all of us

in the stark reality

that none of us

are free.

RW

Seattle

07.01.2019

(Galatians 3:28)