Morning, Dawson
Creek
by Jeanette Lynes
Rain, yes,
decanted
while we slept.
Street a smirched stream
white
birches importune beside.
Isn't there a dog somewhere needs walking?
Where is everyone?
Last night people wore rubber boots, bluegrass
bands
plucked songs of slain lovers.
Where are they now?
Where is everyone - the question of my country
-
often asked it
myself in one form
or
other.
Where is summer? - four syllables thrummed
on drum-shaped tables in The Alaskan (among
other places). I'll assume
it's a real question -
this
could be it, this
could be
the
sum of it.
Jeanette
Lynes decants while you are sleeping.