Truth on a Bobsled

Gnawing at the news online

having been misled

by a most trusted source 

who promised in email

not a binding agreement

nevertheless

by a date 

late this week or early next

we would have it done

was he too misinformed by his most trusted source?

believing in 

what he hoped to believe

as we did

now I pay scant attention to the news for I see

truth careening downhill on a bobsled falling apart

from false enthusiasm with no corroboration

to splatter as just an alternative fact but a true one

forensics will say combing through the debris

where truth fell afoul of infamy

the bobsled proving imaginary

the truth lying dead

Dick Russell © Richard M. Russell

                         2024

 Nairn

Age puts distance between present and past

stretching lengths longer than any string 

connecting time present in electricity

to time past in books made of paper pulped from trees

to photographs and film to ruins that outlast

time present time future wherever we can ping

For only at sea far from land in a sailboat

or on land far from a road can I imagine 

sempiternal time’s wild attractions

alone with whatever weather sky apportions

alive that moment wearing not wasting time’s coat

unbuttoning time’s blouse I imagine

Entangled with my muse timeless and eternal

Age puts distance between present and past

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

                        2024