Aphrodite Said                                                                                    Medea                                                                               

  

            For Jolene

in love like chess

    you must make the next move

         must contend with her

                 not any other

       Dick Russell

                ©

             2016

                            Telepathy

                                       For Pam

                                                  (Sister Mary Agnes)

                                       now metal money too seldom clatters
                                       on marble counters of café’s and bars
                                       where cash registers don’t chime but slide
                                       a draw out for those paying hard money   
                                    
                                       now solitary silence in a cell’s
                                       customary for nuns and digital 
                                       literati broken by birdsong   owls 
                                       hooting at night   dogs nosing attention

                                       you can marvel anyone ever sought 
                                       quiet concentration without headphones
                                       in a populous city with no private space
                                       when papyrus was paper and scratch was slate

Dogs tune out

digital commerce, texting, just plain spying

all that noise

dogs have it

a reality of smell

they also read your minds

so that all your thought

they know

 Argos knew

Odysseus 

        would come home

would a dog

sense Pam's ghost

turning towards me?

though so far away

  Copyright © Dick Russell
                2016, 2018

Foyers Poems

Poem for Joanna

http://seeingnorthlight.blogspot.com/2012/09/blog-post.html

For Peachie Le Nic

http://seeingnorthlight.blogspot.com/2013/08/for-peachie-le-nic-i-leaving-that.html

At Foyers

http://seeingnorthlight.blogspot.com/2013/12/blog-post_27.html

What I Liked About Rex

http://seeingnorthlight.blogspot.com/2013/01/0-false-18-pt-18-pt-0-0-false-false.html