Poetry Friday
A Poem Named "Spot"*
Kansas saw-grasses whisper and wave
in the unbearable 1800s wind
I listen to Dixie songs first as irony
till the simpleness wins my heart
crystal voices selling honesty
be they so or not, I am sold
I Fly Away to unbearable earlier ages
Kansas saw-grass waving on the prarie
little houses, yes.
*Flannery O’Connor wrote that she would name her dog ‘Spot’ as irony, her mother would sans irony. FO said she figured it didn't matter much in the end.
Hangman
In the history of man
we few
we hang like half-done hangman scrawlings
our tombstones
holding yet one date.
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