 JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. He has two poetry projects available at Origami Poetry. Vast and Mighty check out scrawny with his yawning life like a leaf rattling he’s fallen off the tree hasn’t taken a bath in weeks who knows who watches him when he’s not in school? check out how he thinks he’s vast and mighty puffing up his small chest waving his bare body in the night air like a frail flag I’d snap him like a twig but he’ll grow to be a branch. Misunderstandings I don’t know or care to understand how the finger roves the place it should not go I don’t know or care to understand how the best and most special relationship can sour like cottage cheese in the sun Do you listen to your mind tick away like I do, and realize when a bad idea is really bad idea? Some will say I’m being judgmental. Probably. I’m looking at the world around me thinking about the mistakes people make, I mean illegal ones here, and just wonder how a species can turn against its own desire to survive. Found Poem from Nabokov I was thinking the other day of writing a found poem from Nabokov when I realized the book I had was in Russian. I wish my tongue were more prehensile when it comes to other languages, picking them up like a parrot’s. Another thwarted idea, but I’m learning to deal with thwarting. Shadow Dancing I’d dance in her shadow and save her a step, but she doesn’t want saving How many people really do? Beauty can be quite deceptive about what lies underneath, so I’ve observed It is a rare act to find reason, competence, kindness, and beauty all in the same place For my part, I’ve found it at least once and that’s made a difference. Observations A man ambles into the store. He could be a raven in disguise. Probably not though. A woman follows him. Perhaps she is stalking like a panther. But no. She just wants vegetables, like we all do. A child toddles by and has brighter eyes than others I’ve seen. Is this the promised one that will save us? Oh, wait. She just spat up.
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