Hazy Acres

Found the center 

Once again 

From the loud tree

Acorns and walnuts 

Overgrown expectations 

Deep rings in the sky 

They said it would be over soon 

The clashing in the evenings eye 

When its yelling at once 

My feet can bend further 

Progress in the simple 

Be here by this time 

With these things 

To meet these people 

To say these things 

About those people 

And give all the words meaning 

And give ourselves meaning 

And on and on 

Then there’s the zero effort 

And the theory 

Never did or would try 

Just to lay in the fatigue 

Invisible understandings that won’t shake the limb 

Zero truth 

Build up the harvest 

Collections 

Until the trip 

When it comes halting like truck lights in a dead end 

Kill the deers 

Check on your friends 

Check on in 

Then 

Disappear for awhile 

Long enough to see past before 

Where it started 

Outside the materials 

Outside the words 

Let the assumptions be little boats in the bathtub 

Limited space in spaces 

One more mile not really a mile 

Just a walk in a place somewhere 

You once existed 

As you have in other arenas 

With other spectrums 

With other children 

With others 

And their meanings 

Just another bookmark 

Saving your place 

While you read something else