FOLLOWING THE WIND
RETURN TO SHADOW'S BLEMISH
SLICED BLESSINGWAY MOON
jim bodeen
6 may 2022
Slow the looking and you slow the reading, like trusting the river slows the river--some description and some big logs seeing into the beautyway while sitting on big river stones
MY BROTHER LEAVING SEASIDE
--for Chuck
Waving goodbye to my brother
in the rain, we stop under parked garage
and pick up a coffee coaster
left in the back seat of my car,
gift for his granddaughter’s
teacher, BEST TEACHER,
during National Teacher’s Week.
My brother’s been doing pushups
in the Fitness Room. We’ve walked
on sand five days in a row.
He’s got chocolate chip cookies
beside him in the passenger seat.
He’s alone now. We wave.
It was as wonderful
as he said it was. Rain
now, and rain forecast
for the rest of the week.
Jim Bodeen
5 May 2022