you, the season, and the Bible (3 poems)


the Tuesday verse

it’s Tuesday
how
are you

well
I hope
and
if not on your way toward
becoming well

and more

I don’t know what kind
of day you’ll have
today
maybe one of actual prosperity
or
to refine only
hope for
more

maybe there will be peace
this day
though there might be conflict
just
as well

the world as it is
we know

here it happens to be
raining and it’s
cooler

it might be raining where you are
as well

as
it falls near
everyone
even in the desert now
and
then

a happy Tuesday to you
and we try to raise our thoughts
toward
a Wednesday with
an even
better view

maybe weather
notwithstanding
or
altering


the longest day

the solstice is approaching
Midsummer
or
Saint John’s

and then the days grow shorter
though it’s
summer
and we think if in irony of longer
days

relish
in fact
the light of day that lingers as a cue
for picnics and vacations
or
simply to take in
because of the gradients of
blue
and then
the stars appear to dance

to twinkle through the atmosphere
at least
in the summer hours we have

which
will grow longer for them

maybe in the dark of only this time
of year
we’ll also think of kick-the-can and
capture-the- 
flag


time and talent

Jesus wept

the reputed shortest verse
though
it’s a matter of numbering and syntax
of translators

and
then getting by the editors in
the inspired process

and maybe new translations
paraphrases
challenge other parts for that epithet

say
to write in Genesis
God made

or maybe to try
only
God


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