also for Socorro
I'm familiar with pavement
and soft crumbly non-skid asphalt.
The odd pointed stone caught underfoot
and caught up in your shoe
--that's me.
I go where where your tiny feet take me.
So how do you write? Take something everyone else takes for granted and stand it on its head. Imagine their faces as what these people expect blows up in them. Find your inner imp and follow where she leads.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Walking Poem
for Socorro
i am dying by inches,
in small steps on well-worn roads
each night as i waste away
walking.
just walking. i am always
walking. and every step toward
home--every step toward you --
takes me
farther and farther away.
then wheels take me back past my
resolutions, my promise
to myself to walk away
for good
and I am drawn, through hurt
through anger and through sadness
through joy, to you, to begin
the cycle of walking again.
i am dying by inches,
in small steps on well-worn roads
each night as i waste away
walking.
just walking. i am always
walking. and every step toward
home--every step toward you --
takes me
farther and farther away.
then wheels take me back past my
resolutions, my promise
to myself to walk away
for good
and I am drawn, through hurt
through anger and through sadness
through joy, to you, to begin
the cycle of walking again.
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