—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain
In much the same way that a bull’s bellowing
can summon up a summer thunderstorm, so too
can a rooster’s crowing seem to create a
morning sky out of nothing, while a roving troupe
of crows is busy undoing all
the hard work that was done yesterday, in their
other shiny things,
of which they
will some-
times
leave
as
strange
little
gifts to us.
these
old
geezers,
battered by
ancient weather; wind-
torn, new teeth on loan, gathering
petals from water, like green feathers that flow
and twirl
in the eddies, this morning a flower aflame all
around us as sunrays unfurl.
The grave of anonymity, the sweep of darkened
wings, remnants of lazy after-
noons, forgotten years long past, dates and places
lost in rifts
of disappearing memory
and history, like
all our days,
adrift
in
time.
I fear the day when my memory is nothing more
than an ancient catfish resting
on the bottom of a deep lake, that sees less and less
of the light near the surface the
longer it stays down
there, but then
again,
it
might
be
a
blessing.
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Today’s LittleNip:
MOON
—L. Dopa
The
moon,
white and
excessive,
never so grand, so
pale—silver light on water. Oh
Death. Oh, Love. Oh, boundless skies and moon.
I am ready.
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Kitchen Newcomer L. Dopa is a former truck driver and professional wrestler who now lives in a trailer park in Big Tuna, TX, where he runs Luchador Press and is also a passionate HAMM radio enthusiast. He may be reached at luchadorpress@gmail.com/. Welcome to the Kitchen, L. Dopa, and don’t be a stranger!
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