Monday, July 29, 2013

POEM: Maybe, by Richard Blanco

Maybe -- a Poem by Richard Blanco


for Craig

Maybe it was the billboards promising
paradise, maybe those fifty-nine miles
with your hand in mine, maybe my sexy
roadster, the top down, maybe the wind
fingering your hair, sun on your thighs
and bare chest, maybe it was just the ride
over the sea split in two by the highway
to Key Largo, or the idea of Key Largo.
Maybe I was finally in the right place
at the right time with the right person.
Maybe there'd finally be a house, a dog
named Chu, a lawn to mow, neighbors,
dinner parties, and you forever obsessed
with crossword puzzles and Carl Young,
reading in the dark by the moonlight,
at my bedside every night. Maybe. Maybe
it was the clouds paused at the horizon,
the blinding fields of golden sawgrass,
the mangrove islands tangled, inseparable
as we might be. Maybe I should've said
something, promised you something,
asked you to stay a while, maybe.
Source: http://www.richard-blanco.com/looking-for-the-gulf-motel/maybe.php

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Poem: FIREFLY, RTE 8 (ef)

(Knox to Plymouth)

With a spasm of bright lime twinkle
It broke its flight on the windshield
A pinprick supernova
Crackling into skittered pathways
Of fading green fire
Surprised and saddened
The road ahead deepening
Steady yellow dashes
No further signals.

07.22.13 eaf