October 29
PIECES OF SKY
The sky falls in pieces and clutters around my feet. Scattered are the moon, stars and sun. Fear and desire have consumed all the
rest. Great tides of resentment wash
away reality and replace it with illusion and propaganda. What am I to do when want drives the
course? Satisfaction is unknown; the
luminous butterfly I believed extinct has not yet come to me. I leave the shards of life to tinkle as I
stumble through them and forget to ask for wings of sweet contentment from
unexplored realms. Paper dreams burn
with fervor; I peer to see what stands behind.
The gracious weather carries me as a seed to a vaulted canopy, celestial
spaces, buoyant and fertile. I will grow
away from the rarefied fragments of unrealistic vistas, sinking roots deep in
cohesion and truth. Pieces of sky melt
to rainbows; home is the nature of things.
Jingle your
intellectual change.
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On a Half-shell in Front of Tiffany’s
Pretty petty pearls wait in oysters
more perturbed than annoyed.
I string my tears for the sake of posterity
leaving the dreams to fend for themselves.
I am nothing if not splendidly prepared
for a life less steeped in wishes than realism.
Opening volleys tell a tale of round irritation,
but I am not finished just yet.
Joy comes from surpassing obstacles
and wearing healed grief
as precious gems around my neck.
You are reading selections from Sober on the Way to Sane
and More Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
