out in the decay, fields find where the trees ain't...

photo by Peter Thody ©

a first day of school is wedding season sometimes

I was waiting for the bus

getting ready

to marry myself

to possibility

I wore iron pressed

white painter’s pants,

a new rugby shirt

and black Chuck Taylor’s

I got egged

basking in the late summer

school-year-to-be

observations in the Sun

I remember, a tomboy was singing

John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane”

while the rest of the kids laughed

or tried to look away while I ran

home to change into some other clothes

not so new or eagerly worn

some other yesterday

that was not as nice as today

some other day that was cloudy

and waiting to be fed more of this

theft-kind of light that looked like rain

EJR ©