Interplanetary

Send me a telegram from Mars 

when you arrive. 

I will leave a light on, but I can’t 

tell you where I’ll be.

[LSS, 4/20/21]

Here on Earth

We’re lost in a tangle 

of deer trails and owl scat 

while coyotes and tree frogs 

argue about what time 

to set the alarm.

A bit of rain begins to fall,

and suddenly the night 

is upon us, a secret cinema 

entertaining us until dawn.

[LSS, 4/20/21]

Anything

I have felt that way about the sky 

on a dry summer day in Kansas, 

as though the trees were about 

to lift away, to drift away 

forever unless I thought 

something, said something, 

did something to give them 

weight and purpose.

[LSS, 4/20/21]