Because I Have Been
I am much more in the personal poem category. My poems, unlike so many poems that talented friends write, they aren't political in the Large Sense. Although I am. How my words link with what I believe is a funny and interesting question without a clear and straightforward answer. Today, for instance, I could write a poem about a woman's work I saw this morning (and then posted on FACEBOOK). Oreo art. She takes the creamy white centers and turns them into paintings. OCD? Genius? A good poem. (Too much time on her hands?)
But because I have been
mitigating big struggles Jews and Arabs one of many obsessions low wage workers list is long because I have been wanting to avoid reading news this summer how difficult the world can be because I have been trying all my life to balance Big Struggles with small joys real people Delores came to visit yesterday 82 she met a New Man with a sense of humor told us his Alzheimers jokes how we can continuously reinvent ways of life we can embroider toast in spite of all that happens plant a path, even a small one, to somewhere else bright orange place we don't yet know