Three More Ways of Looking

the fifth glance might have
stitched faint tracings into
a semblance of cloud cover

you’re covered in clover
mulching tea stained tissue
and threading cactus spines

a typical denouement
to act five would be closure
heard around the world

[RK, 4/17/21]

Four More Way of Looking

The crisp decisiveness of film noir,
shadows that you only notice on the
tenth viewing.

Those movies you remember so well
now grainy and analog, tacked to the
community bulletin board.

Summer repertory scripts curl with the heat
of your supply room. How much thread
have you, Clotho, spun this year?

A wisp of something more, inculcated
in daily moments of total awareness
during your daily merry-go-rounds.

[RK, 4/17/21]