Monday, August 24, 2015

Just After a Very Tex-Mex Meal with My Latest Pseudo-Family

There is only one Texas.
There is only one 
sound cicadas make 
(sound cicadas sing)
at 7:45 PM.

There is only one breeze 
close to the windows 
when you're driving 
down the road and 
everybody in every other state believes 
there's no trees and no grass and no land 
and no choice and no beauty 
but there is 
but there is! 

I write this listening to it all,
Lost in it all,
Crazed goofy-silly-slap-happy,
Trying to keep my bearings;
Since a poem will only make it sound pretty
But never quite do it justice.

And I guess I just 
wish you we're all here 
my closest and nearest 
and dearest, some 
10, 20 years ago.







erika