Some Poetry I Guess

Based on Milton Avery’s Girl With Cello 

Teacher’s Kid.
Perched in the backseat
“I want to play cello”
sitting, right angle
feet planted, praying mantis
two bodies merging
into one sound.
Balancing the musical equation,
I never learned bass clef.
Good Boys Doing Fine or otherwise.
Breaking and Entering.
The porridge is either
too old fashioned or too advanced.

 
Based on Doug Jeck’s Angel

Tourist of Heaven.
Dead weight in Sunday School,
ankles crossed,
hand open,
the body of christ,
tiny cups of grape juice.
Grafted into something,
never baptized.
Naked in your dream,
pretending to understand
the end of the world.
2012. Hobby Lobby.
Do you believe in God?
We haven’t talked about it since.