My Poetry

Just Another Day

It’s just another doughnut day in the universe.
I want to smash my face into flour, fluff and sweetness
and forget anything that prevents me from feeling
the absolute joy of birdsong or yellow balloon
whether it be deadline or telephone line,
the electronic busyness of our lives;
for there are rows of tulips conspiring pink
and lovers breathless next to willow trees,
there are lilacs whispering among their twisted trunks
and windmills whirling through Van Gogh’s ear!
There is color everywhere
and sprinkles of hope in my heart
that you will feel the freedom
of renegade rivers and the vast expanse
of starry starry nights.
Connect the dots, the body of water
between us, this great flood of love
that seeps through and beyond the earth.


Terri Glass