Sunday, December 29, 2024

Aging Poet Maps Near Future

 

The old get-up get-down

lost the beat,

the run-start run-stop

sticks on stop,

the go-quick gear

lost its teeth,

and the locks

on the Urinary Canal

broke down

at bottom.

 

But the laboratory

that develops 

all the work-arounds,

fueled by gratitude

for gifts received,

shared, given, remembered

and forgotten,

still invents the plow-throughs

and ways-around

wreckages and potholes.

 

Switched-on requires

deliberate decisions

in constant defiance

of switched-off

and, so, go.

Go on.

Friday, December 27, 2024

Momennejad opening

 

Apropos of Ida

Momennejad

and those pillars

of abundance,

I am not yet

a friend of the trees,

but I find myself

ready to listen.