Sun, 2007 Dec 23
A different holiday
I’m a nerd. Probably a mega-nerd. Except when it comes to sci-fi tv. So, I’m transitioning the interface to my personal database from PHP to Rails. Yes, really, I have a database with my journals, Bible study thoughts, random writings, letters, etc. Like I said, I’m a nerd. Anyway, whilst fixing some little data formatting problems, I came across what is probably my favorite poem that I’ve written.
I wrote it April of 2001. I think it would be a lot more interesting if I had written in October of that year, or maybe summer of 2002. Alas.
Anyway, I thought I’d share it.
Sometime After the Fourth of July
Well, in the end,
the June bugs die,
apple cores rot under sticky heat,
and even the star-spangled banner
fades, thank god.
A while back,
daydreams circled to a beat;
rain formed above.
Once, I smelled perfume while sucking juice
from a lemon.
August has a deadly moon;
a mood for erasing connections
and leaving children tossing mindless fist
or sleeping
by the ancient burial grounds
of locusts.
Edit, a few minutes later:
I was really happy when I wrote this poem; or maybe, really content. There was no particular reason, except that it was a nice spring day and I was sitting at one of the tables in the UMSL quad and had nothing particular to worry me. And that’s the way I read this poem, is a happy poem, full of no-worry.
I’m not sure that it matters.
