SOMETIMES MY OWN FAMILY

FLAP THAT SHUTS THE WORLD AWAY

No word for goodby
Sister Sadie Sadie
Solitary sweat

My other self gone
Water dog walking
Her breath is now mine

Jim Bodeen
8 January 2015

BREATHING BREATH BEDS

Divine human content

Nature looking at nature

God looking at God

Listen to them breathe

Between two winter dreamers

Steady wife, old dog

Jim Bodeen

7 January 2015

Low light, low snowpack

Cork bark black pines wired

to survive earth quakes

Jim Bodeen

5 January 2015

TREES THAT LIVE AFTER

Bonsai dormancy
Counting syllables at night
Develop new trunk

Jim Bodeen
5 January 2015



GET AWAY IN ORDER TO ARRIVE

Flakes of iced glass
No story slowing snow melt
Wool quilts on warm walls

Jim Bodeen
4 January 2015



SOMETIMES MY OWN FAMILY

This walk between worlds
Wonder's cool intimacy
No may why yes be

Jim Bodeen
1 January 2015

WHEN THE FAITH OF THE CAREERISTS

FAILED MY MOTHER

SHE TURNED TO BASEBALL

I find

and have been found,

listening

Arbitrary space, spaces,

trees, rocks, basements

Others, the other,

and their places

Mountains

and shelters

(built by men, too)

only to be away

out of wind

Jim Bodeen

31 December 2014