• IN THE PARK REMEMBERING
    by UC Poika

    the sailboats shout the colors mankind makes
    above the dark blue waves in years gone by
    remembered yellows, reds and orange with white
    there under azure skies with only wind
    and clouds that light upon horizons’ haze
    with all the grace of cormorants, ducks and geese
    all so easy on my mind the sunshine’s warmth
    introduces herself massaging my neck and back
    as I sit beside an oak that lost his shades
    to army worms that devoured all his leaves
    that must have tasted better than you’d think
    for not a single one of them is left
    to fall upon no picnic table’s top
    inscribed with only symbols gangs can know.