Dailies 10/21: pet shop, mom’s jewelry, meteors, upon the heights, we’ll always have parents

Mary Jo Salter – We’ll Always Have Parents

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It isn’t what he said in Casablanca
and it isn’t strictly true. Nonetheless
we’ll always have them, much as we have Paris.
They’re in our baggage, or perhaps are baggage

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Robert S. Pesich – Pet Shop

People are wandering the aisles

looking for a pet. I am there

in the back with the silence

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Nicole Cooley – Mad Money

When I find my mother’s jewelry box—blonde leather, impossibly
fifties teenage—desire fills my chest like dirty

shredded Kleenex—desire for my mother’s sixteen-year-old self.

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Yone Noguchi – Upon the Heights

And victor of life and silence,

I stood upon the Heights; triumphant,

With upturned eyes, I stood,

And smiled unto the sun, and sang

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~~~TRIBRACH~~~

Poetry Diary: last night was the peak night of the Orionid meteor shower. (One can see “Orionids” falling until October 26.) My cats woke me up at 2am so I went outside and watched the sky a bit…saw one. They zip across extremely fast! Our neighbors told my kid about them and now he’s afraid of one falling on him. 

Maurice Lesemann – On an Evening of Bright Meteors

Sometimes they drop to earth, you know,

And bury themselves on someone’s farm.

There’s no intent, I think, to harm.

The heaven has deadlier things to throw,

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