wanting
yeah you want calm
relax
sit still nubbly peace encampment
‘round the campfire
contentment
minaret and mint tea,
to heed the call,
kneel
before original green,
moss, fern, tree.
and yeah you want
pogo stick
and downhill ski,
cowboy boot swagger shimmy
sassafras root,
slapdash
and motorcycle throttle
vroom.
you be the wanting?
or you be
the field
where wanting
say hello
say goodbye
watch
the redeliver
come and go.
Melanie Green‘s most recent poetry collection, A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm was published by The Poetry Box of Beaverton, Oregon. The titles of her earlier collections are: Continuing Bridge and Determining Sky. She is a resident of Portland, Oregon.
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