Poems
by KJ Hannah Grenberg
Trailed by Dusty Snakes
Brown birds, trailed by dusty snakes, lit
Upon those prickly pads, source of food,
Shade, water, home to few, friend to all.
Lizards pranced, all the while avoiding
Those spikey extensions, rising free of
Winding forms, praising the sun-baths.
Several kilometers south, stately palms
Bent from fruit, reached roots into low
Trickles, profiting camels plus drivers.
Cattails and Bullrushes
The sexual politics of mental illness inside of mailboxes,
Versus zyphers continuity along with advertised deceits
That use sassafras leaves, if toxic or otherwise anodyne,
Beyond cruel opossums, part-time jobs, minus fraternity
-pinned youths, steal statistics agendas, possibly history
Homework, together with regurgitating adverbs as verbs.
Past forty terrors, the desert no longer gleans happiness,
Aujourdhui petunias, knee socks, library cards, far-off
Plagues. Its subdued, receives grey kittens, frayed orbs
All silky cotton, cattails and bullrushes, wedding guests,
Visiting elders, strung pearls, minute potatoes, feasibly,
Furthermore, summers lotus blossoms sinking in oases.
The most salient vicissitude of sundry dinguses remains
The alienation of bird whistles, paperchains, small dogs,
Aluminum bonnets, as well as fortified cereal. At times,
Its better to affect creativity, self-concept, little, weird
Modes of transmitting beliefs than to trace findings that
Synthesized over cold, chicory coffee. Java is important.
Elsewise, persons are injury by ranking hierarchy. Rare
Prayers create understanding, conviction, or passionate
Stases, though worth is even now cued via blistering,
False eyelashes, heaters, childrens crayoned drawings,
Sparkly lipstick, fishing rods, apartment rental charges,
Funny sounds that cars make when stalled by hoarfrost.
Tehillim and Vanilla Cupcakes
Psalms, alike vanilla cupcakes, can gather
Real pertinence in life, toward preliminary
Prongs for examining principled practices.
Once farsightedness fails to cover topics,
The iniquitousness of discourse overrides
First-order and second-order approaches.
Theory-of-knowledge questions, similarly,
Manifestation-of-knowledge interrogates,
Are, most of the time, worthy of answers.
Rhetorical breakwaters protect unlimited
Spans of attention, pass people to unique
Relational explorations, rule perplexities.
Contemporary processes for sanctioning
Language, in the end, include useful and
Relatable arrangements, ethical statuses.
Creativity, identity, moreover, social lists
Shortcomings, involve muddling personal
With public onuses, ill-applying strategies.
When regarding discarded support favors,
Peddle naught; proffer new growth, gratis,
Illuminate common positions significance.
(The ultimate cultural catharsis may well
Stay constituted by items transcendence
Along with theories impartial behaviors.)
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