Auguries Cast Aside
CAConrad
to enter the sky with our bodies
the principal concern for
inventing airplanes
no one taught me this
any more than they taught me
to say good morning to my hippocampus
but I do because I love my hippocampus
I was in a band one summer
we never could harmonize
we smiled and kept playing
we loved our united disunity
a wild stubborn focus
chewing its way out
how awkward the
archer after
shooting
his arrow
remembering
first time getting
into bed just
for sex
they say
I’m old now
ask my advice
all I have to offer is
make as many mistakes
as you can handle but make
them as soon as possible
oh and don’t waste time
following each other from
opposite sides of the river
when storm blows wig
off my head it simply
means it is time to let
the storm take its share
