From APOLOGETIC LAGOON by Rustin Larson
FOUR CROWS
Four crows stroll
on the dark green lawn
like diplomats
I know it is just the wind
but those oak leaves quake
as if they are so afraid
Two young squirrels
chase each other's tail
around the trunk of a tree
YELLOW
CANOES
Four yellow canoes
capsize in the middle
of the murky green lake
Mourning doves hoot
roosters scream
at children on bicycles
Echoing the breeze cool
I have a temperature
of 99.1
CHIROPRACTOR
The chiropractor
did not let me sit
in the waiting room
There is currently no cure
Rest in God
my boy
How long does it take
to get through
300 kitchen matches
MATCHES
Close box before striking
Keep away from children
Light quickly and easily
There is a green light
in the honeysuckle
a limited lifetime warranty
A tattered $20 bill
A 2nd Covid shot
in the Stinger Honey Pharmacy
HAPPY
PILLS
Calm as Earl Grey
minerals vitamins and herbs
pre-schoolers on happy pills
Yellow watercolour paint
on my trousers
clear blue day
Windier
than a touch on my head
or Black Forest ham
BLUE JAY
a medicine disposal safe
or Christian techno music
of tinkling raindrops
Elegant lady in skirt
no stockings
Danish white skin
Blue jay squawks
from a stand of pines
rhino skin lake water
ANGRY WIFE
A wife angry
before she leaves
with two children
3 Students
in flour sacks
and clothing made
Let them hear
like lonely doves
in the mountains
ALMOND
FISH
like almond fish
under the moon
of soft pastries
Rustin
Larson's poetry appears in the anthology Wild Gods (New Rivers Press,
2021). Recent poems have appeared in London Grip, Poetry East, The
Lake, Poetryspace, Pirene's Fountain, and Lothlorien
Poetry Journal. His chapbook The Cottage on the Hill was published
by Cyberwit.net in April of 2022.
He is on faculty in Maharishi International University's MFA in Creative Writing program.
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