Osteopathic

This is about some health problems that have come along in the past few months. It is optimistic though.

Osteopathic

The river,

poisoned by the stained 

grey concrete geometries,

still flows,

along the same valley,

polishing the mountains,

past the overhanging 

water oaks

and wise cyprus trees.

It's blood,

feeding the algae,

and rounding the rocks.

It's curves

stirring up

the purifying mud.

It's flow, accelerating

and collecting through time,

but then broadening 

and thinning,

until still seeping

into the boundless

sodium sea.

-Robert L. Jackson III

Weathered

Weathered 

Our statues, 

constructed 

during the early age 

of heroes, 

are crumbling.

Repair them

with bubblegum,

and document them

in silly putty,

but they still wear

in the wind

and erode

in the falling droplets 

of dark soda.

With the sun grinding down,

even though they fall

their shadows continue to grow.

-Robert L. Jackson III