Saturday, February 27, 2016

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





Sunday, February 7, 2016

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