Another Open House Poem
· Don’t Look Too Closely At the Water
The South is about the little ripples of life seen from above
But surface
From underneath,
From deepness where souls live and each peaceful moment
Has its meaningful undercurrents
(We must ignore the undercurrents)
Differently colored brothers pick up each other,
Carry each other to work
In beat up cars and well-shined trucks,
Sharing gas, sharing lives,
Lives that crackle with
Unspoken
Tension
Everything is fine- We must ignore it.
Work the binding factor, the unspoken rule,
Without which lives unravel.
An old tree sparks a controversy,
A fat woman named such,
Without slowness in each vowel,
Each syllable to say
“This is just a neighborly thing to say”
And guns are pulled,
Differences Tower,
but Fade in community and
a common goal or in the pursuit of money
Just don’t look too closely at the Water
*Copyright 2005 Katherine Sloan
The South is about the little ripples of life seen from above
But surface
From underneath,
From deepness where souls live and each peaceful moment
Has its meaningful undercurrents
(We must ignore the undercurrents)
Differently colored brothers pick up each other,
Carry each other to work
In beat up cars and well-shined trucks,
Sharing gas, sharing lives,
Lives that crackle with
Unspoken
Tension
Everything is fine- We must ignore it.
Work the binding factor, the unspoken rule,
Without which lives unravel.
An old tree sparks a controversy,
A fat woman named such,
Without slowness in each vowel,
Each syllable to say
“This is just a neighborly thing to say”
And guns are pulled,
Differences Tower,
but Fade in community and
a common goal or in the pursuit of money
Just don’t look too closely at the Water
*Copyright 2005 Katherine Sloan