will I break my neck
from random urges?
flatten my nose
by eating shrimp?
mid-morning
hangs around here for years
but at least
it’s calm by the pond
will the wall collapse
and crack my skull?
will I tear my larynx
if I clear my throat?
I toss my line in
catch somebody’s abandoned knitting
reel it in
will have it for supper
will I lose my head
in a dash out of the rain
or break a bone tinkling?
and what about forgiveness?
will it demand my head
on the chopping block?
away from people
I quietly disappear
up my own rear end
repeat this ten times
dwarfed by oaks
in a tryst with passing current
everything on the menu
is calm to a fault
John Grey
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, River And South and Tenth Muse. Latest books, “Subject Matters”,” Between Two Fires” and “Covert” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Paterson Literary Review, White Wall Review and Cantos.