Friday, December 25, 2020

Wistful

 

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Wistful

We live at the corner of Lincoln and Forest.
What I wouldn't give to stand here
and turn the dial of time backward,
rewind the threads of now
onto the spool of eternity,
pavement evaporating,
divisive moments in human history blurring, retreating, disappearing
as the beech-oak-hickory canopy
closes in
concealing a sky that has never known contrails.

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2020 (draft)



Thursday, December 10, 2020

Six Weeks One Summer


"Finding Your Way" by Victoria Nessen


 SIX WEEKS ONE SUMMER


1985

After the first job,
before the second degree.
Between.

Blue Highways
South -- tobacco fields
West -- Navajo Nation
North -- regal mountains

Soundtrack
box of cassette tapes
meadowlark on a fencepost
AM radio

Souvenirs
single finger wave
small town hospitality
sense of direction


©Mary Lee Hahn, 2020



My poetry "podcast" about this poem is here.