Ken Wagner

01-20-23

My birthday today
Highway
speed limit

Follow the highway
speed limit
A birthday today

Ignore that highway
speed limit
A birthday today

I am the highway
speed limit
A birthday today

Scoliosis
That hollow pole
in my back

Seaspray
Playing violin
at the ocean

End of
the pier
Wind lifts

Nowhere to go but up
Giraffe drinks
from the stream

Footprint
Field of winter
wildflowers bloom

Give and take
The clouds above
a swelling sea

Give and take
The shadows below
the waterline

Give and take
The clouds
above the mountain

Give and take
The shadows
below the mountain

Points of view
Red barn on a hill
in the snow

Ferris wheel lit
red and green
Christmastime returns