porch poem

  

People should be named

things like plant or water

or iphone if you’re being nifty

 

but all the Jonathans in the world

can not surmise

how this planet is a rock

just as that rock over there

is a planet

me neither

 

oh look

an obsidian squirrel

in the crunchy snow

 

oh listen, buzz buzz

it’s Priscilla telling me

to set a timer

and get my life together

 

oh feel

the cold, the heat

on my toes and fingers and face

 

People should be naked

things like January and outer space

suggest it

 

all the helixes may not

be unraveled fastly enough

to compete w your shadow

old pine

 

we don’t love u more

than the sun

or less

 

your name is mysterious

buzz buzz

 

look on zocdoc Priscilla says

the answer may be lurking

there