blessings:
(for Lynette)
Bless the counting
One: Pain, lasting an hour, two
long enough for grapes to green
(Wash them warm again)
Two: Forgiveness (your own) and fore
thought, hidden behind the bookshelf
Life is alphabetical
Three: Expandability, infinite as china
and less fragile
Blue willow turns pink if you crack it
Four: Connection, a Joni Mitchell song
piano keys and fat trees,
Selfish in the twenty-twenty sun
Five: Joy, the hermaphroditic winter guest
who raps your heart
with the clean crack of bone-break
Six: Seven, and numbers (since all good
comes in figures), and the end
of a song Endings are the refrain for beginnings
(All songs are the first
All poems
Shannon Hammermeister
Copyright 2000