Jack C. Buck‘s poem: in reply while stuck in business traffic


1.

today seems like it’s going by very slowly

just ready to be home with you is all

2.

small life big life a life our life my life

3.

you’re easy to write poems about

4.

close proximity/

driving around town

(not that house

nor that house)

choosing a smaller house

to be closer

5.

people in your life

living in this world at the same time

together in a beautiful place

sharing a late afternoon to evening

knowing/not knowing if or when

if ever will not happen again

6.

the west is obsessed with living forever

7.

okay that’s enough poems in the park for one day

time to go get drunk and turn up the music

put on the good stuff

let’s dance

8.

I did not remember this

until I wrote these lines


Jack C. Buck lives in Boise, Idaho. He is the author of the collections Deer Michigan and Gathering View, along with the chapbook will you let it send you out.

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