Hi! This year (2023), I’m continuing my quest to share a poem on my blog and podcast and read it aloud. It’s all a part of my quest to be brave and apparently the things that I’m scared about still include:
- My spoken voice
- My raw poems.
Thanks for being here with me and cheering me on, and I hope that you can become braver this year, too!
For Anne & Maxine
Why is it that the dead
Never listen to my pillow talk?
I am tired, but can’t sleep
Again and again and again.
You snore next to me
And occasionally twitch
As the dog snuggles in between us,
Released from her crate
Because she cries so much.
Again and again and again,
Why is that my whines
Never wake anyone up?
Not even myself.
Gabby Dog Poem
There can be no doubt,
her fluffy, furry, slobbery self
was meant to save us just not
the way she thought,
not from little gray squirrels
allegedly terrorizing the house,
standing on porch railings
as they stashed nuts
into their cheeks;
nor from Fed-Ex drivers,
obviously nefarious,
with those cardboard boxes
that could contain something awful
like ear cleaning solution or cats;
nor from the lumbering man
who drug oil lines through the snow,
hooking up house to car
like some cartoon villain ready to detonate explosives,
but from our own forever brokenness,
the way our hearts yearned
to just be loved by someone
despite all our flaws.
Hey, thanks for listening to Carrie Does Poems.
The music you hear is made available through the creative commons and it’s a bit of a shortened track from the fantastic Eric Van der Westen and the track is called “A Feather” and off the album The Crown Lobster Trilogy.
