Saturday, July 6, 2013

J.K. Durick- Two Poems

J. K. Durick is a writing teacher at the Community College of Vermont and an online writing tutor. His recent poems have appeared in Decades Review, Poetryrepairs, Third Wednesday, and Up the River.
 
 
 
            Perilous
 
A peril      awaits
measures and maneuvers
in place
snuggles and snickers
complicates things
 
still we step off the curb
into oncoming traffic
expecting nothing
 
light up too near the gas pump
inhale deeply
 
take the turn too fast
without signaling
 
take another dose
without reading the label
 
take another drink
then decide to drive home
 
peril awaits us     we know    
but go against the flow
 
against their wishes
their best advice
 
go along just to see
how it will all end
 
peril waits for us
dresses the part
knows us well     waits
 
the proverbial banana peel
is as real
like a downed power line
a rickety bridge
 
the deal too good to miss
the stranger calling us over
to his dark and sinister car.





          A Curious Case
 
That family disappeared
Ain’t it weird   ain’t it weird
 
They disappeared in their fairlane
Known as big blue
 
The father, the mother, and the other two
That perfectly perfect pair some say
 
Their children all dressed in their cliché
Of chocolate cones and wishing bones
And hearty moans for dad’s bad jokes
 
And for older folks
They never feared
 
Ain’t it weird   ain’t it weird
That family disappeared
 
Disappeared down the street
No great feat for them
 
Round the bend
To a just supposed end
 
We never can mend or revive ‘em
Save ‘em  or survive ‘em
 
They’ve become a point in time
A trick, a fix, a crime
 
Waving forever from the corner
Never a wake, never a mourner
 
Never those marks of consolation
For they never reached their destination
 
But remain somewhere unseen
Perhaps somewhere in between
 
For somewhere short of their mark
They were eaten by the dark
 
Ain’t it weird   ain’t it weird.

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