Saturday, 5 September 2020

A Poem a Day (253): Out of motion

 

Out of motion

I’m not asking or looking
Or thinking to take anything,
This reflection of dust,
These flickers of survival.
We trust in nothing these days,
It’s just a removal.


The men wait for the bins,
Eager to take it all away,
The junk, the discarded, the small.
These days I am cardboard,
Folded, emptied out, invisible.
A packaging with nothing inside.


We watch dirt blow in balls,
Crossing the street back and forth
In circles neverending, rewinding
Day into night into day.
I forget the moon sometimes.
The evenings turn to grit.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, September 5, 2020

 

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