michael rerick
[leaning into plastic leis on our hats and leaning on medicinal measures]
leaning into plastic leis on our hats and leaning on medicinal measures
we aggressively talk when we do not want to and recognize the need to do so
I tap downtown building tops waiting for both green and steel sky parts to fall
I stroll through a fairy village built in the front yard of a human sized house
tingling in the dripping tree dangle grey rocks shimmer with life’s origins
expecting the squirrel and crow with the cool morning and getting them
the grass is getting scratchy and difficult to sleep on curled with the dogs
a parking structure shortcut witnesses the patient hunt for a parking spot
I speak computer in milkweed turning one counterclockwise into the wind
enticed by the orange blue and yellow 70s apartment balcony glass doors
and the bit of chip foil litter blown into a swamp grass street median
saying
a hand writ alphabet puzzle sent across
the world lands in the internet but
since circles and stems scramble culture
with meaning stiff pixels resist
the challenge of meaning making though
sender context spells out affection
Michael Rerick lives and teaches in Portland, OR. Work recently appears or is forthcoming at BlazeVOX, Brief Wilderness, Cola Literary Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, Indefinite Space, Marsh Hawk Review, Oddball Magazine, The Main Street Mag, The Headlight Review, The New Absurdist, Why Vandalism, and Word For/Word. He is also the author of In Ways Impossible to Fold, morefrom, The Kingdom of Blizzards, The Switch Yards, and X-Ray.