Pretending

This poem was written using only words from page 127 of Essays of E. B. White in the essay "Unity."

Unending sky pretending

The wind is earth

The rain a sovereign 

Protected by strong diplomacy

With commands, concerns, constitutions,

A discussion on evolution and progress,

With political pursuits to maintain

Such attention to a wish

Could wake to the broken familiar

Of something wild happening

Holy Places

Here, where my mother knelt

with my father beside her

praying with love from eternity

for me,

for my brothers,

for every facet of our lives.

They hallowed the ground

where they worried, and loved,

And guided.

United.

Written for dVerse.

Late Night

peering through branches
at the moon through netted screen
makes moonlight fuzzy