Paucity
Yesterday
It dispensed easily
Like rain
Let go
From a swollen cloud
I had slept some
And daylight seemed
A welcome thing
And writing
Something natural
Instinctive
Like a salutary
Habit
Today it is forced
Word by word
Even choice in syllables
Certainly hopping
Around
Like bunnies
Or like joeys
Seeking mamas
Or small plants
While I seek
Themes
For nourishment
And all of us
Hunt space from predators
Something holy
Set apart
Something measured
Dispensing peaceful portions
Something with color and
With shape
That is also moving
Changing
Like diversity
Itself
As a
Kaleidoscopic offering
Without round lines
Bounding
Even
Weight presses down
Maybe I’ll try again
To sleep
The light is not inviting
Though it’s pretty
But pretty
Enervating
Too
Doze off a while
Maybe
For dreams enough
To help me when
I’m waking
And I’m doing this
Again
Z on
Dream on
Plenty
God help us all
This day
I know God will
The form
Is mystery
The timing
But God is good
Many say
That God is great
God is a spirit
God is love
To move us ‘round
And give us our
Discretion
Honest mystery
To treat us
As we matter
With everyone
And it’s everyone
Everything that’s made
That matters
C L Couch
Photo by Amer Alhalawani on Unsplash
half moon mid of the day
New River Beach, NB, Canada
Half the Nation
Half of all Syrians trying to escape—
Too many, for one reason or
Another—failing
Running not due to defiance, not
Because they are combatants
They run because otherwise
They’re killed
Can you imagine half of a nation’s
People trying to run from war?
I’m not sure I can
Help,
Please, help
That is my cry from my safe,
If disabled place
At least, for lack of bombs exploding
Near my children’s ears, I can hear
And feel to think
What else shall we do?
To make homes not over-wrought
But simply safe from civil—civil, we
Call it that—extinction
After half are gone, what can the
Remainder do? This is not simple
Math:
Half a nation left is not division,
There is no numeric cohesion, for
What is left is unmeasured ones of
Split in twos
First ones fled into frightening beyond-
Numbering equations
(news covered in The Skimm,
dailyskimm@morning7.theskimm.com)
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