blog of poet, leah umansky

Fifths

1/  it was a far cry

not being mean

A quick search and

it’s astonishing

A fictional portrait:  we are all preoccupied.

The ritual:            follow this grain.

ever-this

ever-this

ever-that.

2/

we paddle out

bobbing

In the background:                          time-shifts

Lift this flap:_______________________                          and this: ____________

and this : ______________

Denote this as:                  background.

A quick search shows:                    a tangled truth

3/ a revolution:

we try

(we never try)

*

But         —             I tried

(I did)

I couldn’t be mean          —             (ever)

The ever-line blurs; bleeds; re-seeds.

In a true-to-life portrait:                I’d be a saint

4/ there’s the rub

oh, the irony.

Denote this to:  empty

low

any number of “NO’S!!!”

5/  no

when you said “no” to :

what didn’t even have time to happen

time-shifting time

to the background

to the ever-lineated

From a child’s view:  you let go.

All that bobbing / all that paddling

*

The days are tangled in me now

I am the ever-present.