Drought Wake

David A. Loibl
Kitten’s Cradle
Published in
Apr 26, 2020

sun glaring down from the weather hill
eyes on the ground for the morning drill

neck likes to bend, play the gentleman
play you may, thinks the head, but be gentle then

don’t pretend like this bend might bear fruit someday
I can’t see, I can’t breathe, while I’m forced to pray

Photo by Author, 2017

Originally published on Wetterleuchten on April 26, 2020.

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David A. Loibl
Kitten’s Cradle

on a quest to trade my lazy cleverness for disciplined bewilderment • poetry and essays • focused on perception, identity, philosophy, sociology & language