Saturday, April 17, 2010

crash landing




I have this little capsule
tinted windows and puncture resistant
plastic polymers
for deep space exploration.
Wait, this is valid
this coincides to everyday living
this is Martha Stewart approved.
For in the laptop engine compartment
I will bake a pie.
I will bake a blueberry pie
and now I'll reveal the reason why:
in forty-five years
life within the realm of cornfields
where robin is the springtime harbinger
and a goldfinch appears over fence rails
zipping like a roller coaster
sticking it for the judges, and
the children who clap and play
kick the bucket,
this land where the wafts
link the window sills
and freshly mown lawns
fill evening airs like music
when the racket ends and
the first bottle cap
flies off into bushes
and the chipper wrens in
nitchy nooks sing out
from their filtched string and lint
beds...
no, I've never eaten a blueberry;
they are so blue...
I am loathe to do it.

7 comments:

Brian Miller said...

ha. fabulous. makes me think of spring and escaping the capsue of the house after a long winter...blueberries are a fav too...so dig in!

Baino said...

I visited an ageing aunt once, she didn't know I was coming and I kid you not there were apple and blackberry pies cooling on the windowsill. So cute. If I did that here the flies would carry them away. I hope we last longer than 45 years! Love your 'stacks on' pic! Stop throwing your bottle caps into the bushes! Put them in the bin!

Unspoken said...

Tom are you kidding me? Never a blueberry? not even in a pancake... Oh, you simply must be jesting!

Love the lines below:

this land where the wafts
link the window sills
and freshly mown lawns
fill evening airs like music
when the racket ends and
the first bottle cap
flies off into bushes

Harnett-Hargrove said...

Did the bottle cap hit the wren...? great image and great images. -J

Tess Kincaid said...

Love when that first bottle cap flies off into bushes! Nitchy nook is so fun. This piece is a good thing, as Martha would say.

Reya Mellicker said...

The drawing reminds me of riding the subway during rush hour. It's a perfect image!

JeffScape said...

I'm sensing the presence of Tupperware... other than that... hrmmm...

I like ellipses... yes... yes, I do...

Here, birdy birdy birdy...