- Gary Hunter
The Better Dessert - June 5, 2020
imagine
your after-dinner
belly plump with
warm cherry pie
lounging
in vanilla ice cream
and
the evening’s talk
the better dessert
imagine
your after-dinner
belly plump with
warm cherry pie
lounging
in vanilla ice cream
and
the evening’s talk
the better dessert
when it’s all over will I return to the stream from where I came not in fin or web-toed nor sharp clawed from above or below without flash shadow or even a ripple but simply flowing making my way ho
Maybe I’ve just been feeling the weather unable to escape the relentless searing sun but you brought me upright when your voice threw me the shade of a fat summer cloud I remember the wonderful troubl
if not to hydrate parched bodies or find a leak in the roofs of miserable souls then to pour and pour and pour over a crazy world slow the talk and traffic and hope a few hear the silence that drips