SPRING RAKING
Winter thatch snow mold
Dogwood blossom overseer
Cheerful white petals
Smaller raked doesn’t talk back
Lets your body lean, look up
Jim Bodeen
18 April 2024
TWO LOVE POEMS FOR KAREN
TWO LOVE POEMS FOR KAREN
TALKING IN BED
I love when you fall into bed that way
What are you thinking
About getting old
Do you want me to read you a poem
Sure
I knew you did
Jim
KAREN’S PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE
WITH MARASCHINO CHERRIES
She waits twenty minutes
after her cake comes from the oven.
It’s one of those family recipes
where you’re not told
how to do anything
and when she turns it over
onto the aluminum foil
cookie sheet, she says,
Oh, it turned out just like my mother’s.
Jim Bodeen
13 April 2024
MORNING EPIPHANY
MORNING EPIPHANY
Coffee ready as I enter
house before sunrise
after walking
empty dishwasher
wipe down counter
telling myself
I’m taking care of things
Jim Bodeen
10 April 2024
APRIL SNOW ON SATUS PASS
APRIL SNOW ON SATUS PASS
Midnight espresso
I would suspect the parrot
Such deep green feathers
Rivers of muted trumpets
Life times with Duke Ellington
Jim Bodeen
4-6 April 2024
JESUS NOW, JESUS, NOW
JESUS NOW, JESUS, NOW
--for Pr A. M.
Jesus laughs.
Already that deep!
Water up to here!
The West Coast poet
said to me, Steps
tiny and wise.
The East Coast poet
said, I am an infant
beginning to run.
Jesus laughs.
Jesus now.
Jesus, now.
Jim Bodeen
25 March 2024
FOR THE LENTEN SOUP AND BREAD MAKERS
FOR THE LENTEN SOUP AND BREAD MAKERS
Walk one mile in rain
Patagonia waters
wait for you at home
Was I gracious enough
for the bread and soup?
My favorite bowl, indeed,
my favorite meal--
that first week, Mary says,
For each of you,
one small bowl,
take one slice of bread.
Jim
23 March 2024
FOR THE MUSICIANS DURING LENTEN SERVICE
FOR THE MUSICIANS DURING LENTEN SERVICE
--Bart, Barb, Ruth Ann, Scott
On the day the band
opened for poetry
no one thought
anything odd
or out of order
Music had opened
hearts and minds
No one knew
how we came
to be in a garden
Jim Bodeen
23 March 2024
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