by Jim Culleny
in a blink
the sun comes up
over mountains sublime
and the sea laps its brim like a pupregal elms come and go
splayed trunks broken by blight
limbs corruptfuture and past collide
winds whistle side by side
bodies touch and often burn upwars rage
scriptures are taught
good and bad divide
killers are caught
doors open doors shutin a blink they say
never the twain shall meet
but twains meet
beast and beauty wed,
but news of a split soon spreads:
Truth Divorced From Politician Such & Such
the tabloids eat it upnotions of right and wrong are cinched
in tiny minds that grasp and clinch
and root and rutlove is made
bodies entwine
hate’s kicked on its ass so hard
it can’t get upmountains move
the earth erupts
promises are kept
and given up
and odes and fugues
make offers
we shouldn’t refuse,
they demand
we not interruptin a blink
all of us know
but no one agrees
if mountains are mountains
and trees are trees
if sky is sky
if mud is mud
if wine’s just wine
if blood’s just bloodeither way
in a blinkin a blink
we drink
it up
