NaPoWriMo 2014 #13

'rainy evening' by Nisheedhi Adukuri
found here
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=767&picture=rainy-evening&large=1

more raining submissions

when

I say to myself

I do not want or

need to be published

or obeyed

I am being

passively aggressive

wanton through divergent glass

playing the transparencies

as a cavalier and apathetic

flippancy

I have an appetite

for flimsy grandiosity

for floozy clever construction

for what makes me woozy

I like the dizzying heights

of almost there and lucky

can I complete a square

without the right angle

I think not, then maybe

I wonder and wear myself

thin as a starved railbird

playing long shots

as if they were ritual

days of auspicious obligations

I pretend I am king midas

bargaining any hope I can

for a little depth to my soul

or something that keeps me

until that moment again

when I have to fly or fall

leaning slowly, surely

tide, tithe and pour

EJR ©