Thoughts During One Hour of Early Autumn Rain (Cutting in the Details)                                                                                         

the online weather report is vague                                                                             

surprise comes gently, malicious things left ungrounded                                         

electricity like an empty Halloween ghost costume                                                  

wondering about private thoughts untended                                                             

possibly malicious, probably innocuous                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

uncertainty weaves in and out of our curious unfinished weaving                                       

easy to imagine electricity hounding me, then touching gently                                            

saying: this also will become part of who you are

 

I’ve forgotten to burn notes for last month’s full moon

looking at them today shocks

who, I wonder, wrote these phrases?

by turns stupid, flashy, and forceful

lacking voltage, amperage, a conductor

 

this is how we outdo ourselves

this is how we learn to forget

[RK, 10/19/2020]