top of page
Gary Hunter

When Days Expire - April 4, 2024

days are as perishable as lives

expiring whether we use them or not

 

some you don’t want to let go of  

the heart-skipping or great news ones

the life-couldn’t-get-any-better ones

those with flowers pressed between pages

 

others you can’t wait to get rid of

cactus thorns in the grass clippings

bloody ones to flush down the toilet

or push to the curb of history

 

so while birds find their nests

and branches as dusk approaches

 

use the light of a dying sun

to find what you want to save

 

before you’re left

rummaging through the darkness

 

annoyed by the lack of light

1 view

Recent Posts

See All

From Our Last Bed - April 22, 2024

most of us will live past 75 watch our bodies shrivel from grape to raisin and our minds leak memories and grind as they rust see our...

haiku - April 21, 2024

hitchhiking cricket thirty miles to Coachella mom lives in Palm Springs

コメント


bottom of page