Tuesday 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
Lilypool Press, 2010