Poetry Corner for the week of 7/16/12: Part Three

I Get It

I can see why

You in the underwear

bent to clean the litter box

I can interpret

Why you found a dead squirrel

frozen to a shepherd’s pole

I can understand

How your maple tree lived on

with a hole in the middle

I can comprehend

Your lack of sleep

was a gnawing restlessness

I can know

Your bleak mind unfolded

to the grey light of day

I can find

the source of

your despair

I can cure

the core of

your problem

I can retrospect

with keen intellect

My muddled present

obscurity

my past

a detailed diorama

open to interpretation

Gordon Stamper Jr.

January 22 and May 4, 2011