Sam Silva: Song of the Sleepy Fellow and In Carolina Places

Song of the Sleepy Fellow and In Carolina Places

Sam Silva

SONG OF THE SLEEPY FELLOW

Look down on what the Lord has made!

Gaze on the valleys of the strong!

The mind craves dance

...thoughts along

the rhythm of a song afraid

and sung

by April, and her cross,

her flowers.

Though the mind would not be crucified

...never having lived and died

that word which other words bespeak

when mortal images are hung

by chance

whose ego moans and sighs with loss

to toss

and turn

the burning hours

that keep the day,

though the mind is an indolent shepherd

wandering its way

among the hills

and pastures of the meek...

IN CAROLINA PLACES

Soaking the skoal wrap

...on queasy feet we come

to dip our snuff

and lie around

the porch

where march winds

touch and torch

the stuff

of oozing Spring

in Carolina places

at the dead end of all life.

The rusty water tap

and the thirst for everything,

subdued

...come see!, what Spring indeed has done!

with this old baseball cap

slung sideways on the head

and the juices wiped on the lingering cuff

close to these grown over fields

in such a valley of the dead....

Table of related information
Copyright ©	Sam Silva, 2004
By the same author	A Nucleus The disease of the Carolinas A mysterious cat
Date of publication	July 2004
Collection	A Hot January
Permalink	https://badosa.com/p131

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