Defenestration

On a Sunday night

After dinner

But before the week ahead

Will blossom like a wild rose

But first

To start the week fresh as a

Linen thread

With all hope

Goes

Like a water

Through a hole

In the bottom

Of the bowl

The stalemate

Of wasted

To start over is the begin

Again

So air out the troubles

Hold the feeling and be whipped out

Defenestration

Into the thick

Winters

Night

You can feel your fingers release

The cold damp history

With dew on the glass

As you open it fast

And out with the old

And in with

The new

Lagom

No more

No less

The perfect amount

None the less

To be held with esteem

When one knows when to bow

And when to scheme

The lagom of the day

Is knowing when to rise up

And when to fade away

Acerbic

Words

Sharpened

With stones

And iron

Creating the oar

Of an acerbic assertion

Pierced through the armor

Of ego and confidence

With one small wince

The house of cards

Will fall down

Propitious

Am I to be propitious

The dedication

To craft

Detail and moment

Will that entail success

Or failure

When a dream is more

Dead than alive

For the majority of the world

Then what is left

Only the chosen few

Get the whole pie

While the rest of us

Settle for just a few

Susurrus

From the lake

Across the street

At 7 AM

The susurrus of water

Lapping the shores

Across from Chicago

Where the Indiana lines stretch

Way into the fresh water oceans

Over the dunes

And through the gentle thicket

I hear the water

Reassuring me

Another day is at hand

Limerence

The light of the day

Or the day of the morning

When the lazy lines

Hit me

In a subtle but unique way

To say

My limerence

Had commenced

On one wry smile

And I could feel the clouds

Fade away from the

Sky

Pernicious

Seeping in the bloodline

Of society

There is the truth

And some other form of

Life

Untrue to the being

Of light

On the ground

How do we assess

The pernicious effects

That have taken one day

Over

And two more

Remain focused on the light

Of the day at hand

And hope for nothing more

Vicissitudes

Variations

On an unpleasant

Theme

Over the words

Sung low and repeating

I hear the vicissitudes

Lurching from the pews

Of renewed loss of hope

In the caverns of light

Darkness

In the halls of good

Evil

Why these changes

Are forced on us like a

Placard on the ground

I await a new day

The breaking dawn

And bird sound