full of grace

Tuesday’s child
what
kind of grace
I wonder

doctrinal or
looks or
manners as in good at dinner
or knows the steps
for
a party

maybe it’s the kind of luck
that person shall
have
the good kind if not
grand
as things fall together

for school
or work
or family
by belief the certainty of heaven
after

such an afterlife secured for
in feeling by the clear and
dovetailed angel
management
of
life


full of woe
(a Wednesday poem)

finally
some color outside both windows

nothing brilliant but
tingeworthy

and shall there be honest fall
or shall this aspect of climate change

cause too many to fall brown and
withered

from too-soon dessicated
branches the season

unseasonal
went

too hot too long
for riotous autumnal virtue

c l couch


photo by Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash
Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival 2018