[lit-ideas] SUNDAY POEM

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:47:03 -0500

BUT SERIOUSLY...

Sometimes the serendipitous
coming together of 
ordinary words
can unexpectedly
cause in me
quite suddenly
a frisson
that quite undoes me
much as 
a surprise kiss
on the back of my neck
can make of me 
a total wreck.

I have dedicated my life
to persiflage,
to the relentless undoing 
of the gravitas 
I was saddled with
by God-intoxicated women
wearing desert dress
circa the years BC.
But sometimes still I hear
in irreverant witty banter
God's laugher
rippling like
mockingbirds
singing
on a Southern evening.

Mike Geary 

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