Saturday, June 1, 2024
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Birds Today
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Killjoy
As if it is too much--a trap--
Enticement to a leap iinto
Seductive light and perfumed air
That must end in a tumble down
A lethal twisting iron stair.
I guess the sour trickery
Of life has halved my optimism,
And turned me puritanical,
Worst-case scenarios deep-scripted &
Embedded in my skittish mind.
Yes, hard to trust in joy, I find.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
In the Beginning
In the beginning was,
Well, the start. In the start
Was the word. Or the light,
Lux, fiated. Fated? Was
The universe fated to be
And/or not to be? In the
First place was no place,
Less than a speck, a tiny
Spec-piece of this period. No,
Really. Out of that
Micro-dot came All.
In that beginning was a Boom-
Bang-Big-Thang. In
The beginning was the end,
A reeling in, an eternal return,
An 8 lying on its side.
In a human baby’s beginning
Is a grammar, a formal loam
Already ready for sounds,
Signs, words, phrases, phases
Of versation. Hear the toddler
Form past present future,
Possess the prepositions,
Put syntax in the right position.
All right, light, let it be, let it
Go on, shine forth. In the Begin,
Let's lean in, watch our words,
Listen here, hear, listen:
We're caught in brute matter
And magic, always beginning.
hans ostrom 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Chores
what I can do,
which now is watching pale
rose light, dusk, after some
day we had. I used to be
cutting grass, mopping
floors, washing clothes. That
was a long moment ago
when things were so what then,
the grass and mops
and suds a long example.
I bow my head, evening,
acknowledge tasks, which
add up to me,
a who whose having done
is such as he's to be.
Almost Faith
Still, if you insist
I’d guess that God exists—
But that—that’s just a guess.
And meanwhile: what a mess.