THIS TINY CROSS
for Megan
hanging from a spider web
on an old growth tree
while hiking Box Canyon
with your dad, my brother,
on Mt. Rainier,
years ago, surfaces this morning.
This cross is for Sunny crossing.
Sunny, who could bite, and did,
is with St. Francis. Your companion,
Sunny, this cross, and the 10,000 ways
animals live among us
showing us how to love.
Uncle Jim
5 August 2022
CONVERSATION ON GRATITUDE
DESCENDING BURROUGHS MOUNTAIN
WITH MY BROTHER AND SISTER
--for Chuck and Vonnie
Oh, thank you, but not from me!
Gratitude comes from Chuck!
No, no, I got it from you.
That can’t be. It was given to me.
How could I not know that, Vonnie.
How would I know.
You send me gratefulness
every day in the mail. Take this trail.
Three siblings passing on the gift,
like the desert fathers
not knowing how to start a fight,
beginning with the brick.
Just say, The brick is mine.
OK, it’s mine. No, it’s mine.
OK, you take it.
Jim
22 September 2022
BELOVED IN THE KITCHEN
Greeting my wife
with a kiss this morning
as she comes into the room
she whispers,
Go hike a mountain
Jim Bodeen
1 September 2022
LONG MARRIAGE
Sore left feet
Two of them
Two sore left feet
Two left feet sore
Two of them?
How is that possible?
One is Karen’s
One is mine
Jim Bodeen
1 September 2022
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