So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Poem: June 29, 2019

Our Home Town

Strange 
that we should choose this habitat
with all the other habitats 
not difficult to get to.

People do it. 
They move their roots. 

Evansville, Indiana
seems so colorless and flat,
no crashing waves
or mountain ranges
to break up the monotony.

No breeze and clack
of subway trains. No buzz.
No narrow, winding streets.

No ancient ruins to create
perspective.

Just a river bend
and a corn field frame,

and the reality that this is where
our families live.

Not a place to pick
if you were going to pick,
a place where its been easy
to see it all, and everything
is easily predicted.

A harbor, to be sure, 
with many lotuses to eat.




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