Saturday Poem

Stations

1.
listen
i've
been
alcohol
free
27 Years
now

&
i'm
lonely

& don't
know how
to not be

in love
with
my one
original
sin

2.
on blue
lips of winter

a whisper
of smoke

3.
listen
i can't pray
by the ocean
anymore
it's
too
sacred

& these
carved
stations
are like islands
& i'm split
wood

4.
between
passions

black
sand
on
rugged
shoes

5.
even the
bitterest
road
is someone's
beginning

how it's
so
bone deep

to fall down
& try

by Jim Bell
from Landing Amazed
Lily Pool Press, 2010