ROCK THE GLOCK

FEVER IN A HEATWAVE

Today I may go shoot guns.

I haven’t held one in my hand

for almost a week

—7 days of discipline?

No,

just too hot and humid

to wear the belted jeans

I need to hold the holsters.

Guns are heavy,

without the belt

my shorts fall and show my ass

to a world that needs no more ass.

There is enough ass

already running rampant in this era

without me adding unintentionally to it.

My palms do wait the weight though,

hope for cooler air to comfort them.

© M Durfee

7.25.2016

A HANDFUL OF SCATTERED SEED

ROOTED AND GROWING

I am living in the garden grown, one of the many seeds sown. I make no determination towards my beauty of being or appalling uselessness in the gardener’s seeing. I was birthed in this place and given no conditions to how I should grow. I would like to be a flower plucked to make a bouquet for a lover’s heart, yet it is not my fate to determine if I am good enough to be a part of that kind of display. I may after all be nothing but a weed choking off life for something more pretty or useful than me. No life can resist its fate, be it bountiful or, another kind of life to abate. I am but a simple thing grown from a seed to fill a space until I have proven I am worthy of life in this place. In silence I my fate await and ‘til the seasons turning no matter my physical being I will enjoy the rain and the sun as my simple reason for being.


© M Durfee

10.21.2014

FALLING RISING COOL

FUELING

Waking to a new dawn, new day,

wide awake eyes open

to see the sun falling

coming to crash and burn on me.

It is a personal journey this breathing life,

sometimes I can take the burn, sometimes not.

Some days I can just pick up and put that old sun

right back in its appointed spot and others; well—

I’d simply rather not.

Having been crushed a number of times before

with gasses whooshing out of every orifice;

it’s cool when my spot gets flaming fiery hot—

What? You’re asking me?

A hug from the sun is better

than freezing cold feet? Of course,

boiling me to steam some movement makes.

Absovaporizinglutely!

© M Durfee

4.25.2014