Let Me Go (Revisited)
Let me go on the Rocks
– on the rocks by the riverside
too old, too old
too steep a hill to comb
no clout, no references
Stuck in the Valley
– the valley below
roaming around scattered icons
of trash by trash-west
no snout, for truffle picking
the thin birch
– standing tall amid the giants
cold and chipped
flat area brush mixing with marmots
get out, evil spirit
Let me go on the rocks
– on the rocks beside the shore
fold me up, throw me away
a blue paper napkin
flips about in the wind
…and sinks in the water
and is carried away downstream
© 2012 Rudolf Kurt Penner
this is a second version of a previous poem from long ago, at first, attempted to write from memory: failed. This is the revisitation.