Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Kooser's Unexpected Tulips ©2005

Plane filled with passengers
Air conditioned vents dulled the engine's roar
Seat buckles clicked like cocking guns
and ear phones shackled minds to LDMonitors embedded behind
          someone else's skull

Mother sits at home on a moth-eaten sofa
chomping on stale apple pie and CNN reruns
expecting the latest on her son's soon departure and
          early arrival

While brother raises acoustics on the better mousetrap
mouse scampers, ears plunging, toward her children,
skurry nest
          no droppings tonight

Baptist missionary blondes the earth with gold preachings
fingers pointing to trees' designs and crystalline rays
North Dakota ranch houses and Nebraska plains
          leveled blue skies

Up in the frozen tundra of Northwestern Iowa
an old man lying dystrophied in bed
meets the eyes of his son-in-law and says I don't care
          about the rest

Take care of my daughter

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