“The Joshua Parade”
Inspired by Alexis
Rhone Fancher’s photo
Could
be an extended family
of
four adults, three kids lagging,
marching
off to visit relatives.
Yet
they do not traipse at all,
except
for the wind in their spires.
They
are surrounded by like trees,
rooted
in place, groups, individuals,
just
like humans, save for faces
and
fingers and legs to walk.
So
they stay, living their positions
under
the shiny blue desert sky,
attached
to the soil of a vast planet,
dreaming
of humanity, some day
hope
to saunter into complicated lives.
Alistair’s Stare
One-year-old
takes an inadvertent selfie
looking
down into the cell phone seeing
what
is up and around in a young world.
Baby
blue pacifier complements his eyes,
secure
the brick chimney is not a human,
for
there is a hand holding a chair attached
to
a familiar grandfather face with gray hair
above,
with quizzical concerned expression.
All
dominated by the white beamed ceiling
which
is the fake sky in this room that hangs
a
circular light unswitched and out of reach.
If
only he could flip over, stand on the smooth
painted
wood as a reverse god overseeing,
everything would still be beyond him for now
“Serious Cloud
Bank”
Inspired by Alexis
Rhone Fancher’s photo
A
fluffy white swath has grown
like
a moist wall towering over all
humans
can muster to build below:
tiny
bridges, buildings, freeways.
Cars,
mere toys carrying itsy bitsy
creations
navigating a designed world.
The
massive cloud covers everything,
temporarily
blinds drivers to use wipers,
as
the behemoth passes through, crying,
leaving
tears everywhere, on every ounce
of
concrete and rubber and glass, sinking
in
to surrounding soil, ready to reincarnate
as
small lives turning green, being eaten,
infesting,
investing in becoming again.
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