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 Aug 2015 pluie d'été
Coop Lee
there is a camping trip planned and preserved
on the reservation of our hopes and dreams and summer sweet nothings. we
retreat upon an open-toed weekend, cooler gemmed
& ready.

there is a place in the mountains
& on that wooded ridge it is waiting to be seen and witnessed. lived
upon, lit upon,
seedling.

sure, i love you.
& sure, i’ll die. and that is forever.
& forever is -
no worry. no bluffs. no sweat.
because this life is right, and right now is everything.
yolk.
to become a bloom of love more than just words and digits and plays of
time. this time
is ours.

is good beer. great beer. &
the heat. the her. her soothes and sovereigns
on this land in which we live with the whole tribe and fun days.
we are our own dreams.
good dreams.

meet her on the shore of a river.
& she is listening and speaking and sung.
with an urge
to love and let begin.
take precedent. take my nettled little heart
and crackle like fire from it the nutrient of lonesome ode.
& from the strum of that
we begin.

we end.
we cog back into the existence of small time
small town nobodies. worked little we.
service and cinema.

thus
busting gut toward town and more weekends and more movement.
there is motion to this curve of time, kids.
curve of pages expressed
& exposed here in wayward traveled poems.
truths of some sort or hallucination. here
we daydream.
there are so many things I can't explain
     like the way you left me all alone
     or the way you squint when you laugh
     or why you insisted I was pretty
     only to run off with some other girl
there are many things I don't understand
     the way your eyes sparkle when you talk about you little sister
     the way you made me smile when I felt like I was dead
     the way you held my hand even when I was too sick to speak
     and how you kissed me on my forehead
that's how I knew you really loved me
     you listened to me rant about nonsense
     you held me for hours while I cried
     you tickled away my worries
     you sang away my heart ache
there are so many things I just don't get about you and I
     why did you leave
     why did you lie
     why wasn't I enough
     why baby why
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