keep looking up
though for safety-sake look down and out as well

it’s a cold cloudy day
whose clarity
is in
for me
my fondness of such days

the sun came out
so we had
that
and will return and I would miss
it
after a while
after
how many days

don’t want things clammy
and
humidity is risky
for inhalers
though
when there’s wind
we
get some help in breathing in
if only of adventure in
the sky

call Pegasus
or build a steampunk thing
for us
and our group
or let strangers be uncalled yet
flung together and
we journey to
wherever
and everything unfolds because no expectations
are
allowed

c l couch


(the title’s not so original, but I used to hear it as the last words called out by Jack Horkheimer who hosted what for me was a late-evening show on PBS)

photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash