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Patrick Walsh

Hermeneutic Approach to a Summer Day

This is it.  This is what reality hands you.

Leisure and lineaments, time

And the rudimentary forms from which

The mind manages to make the world.

 

        I

 

Brace for the arrival of spiral galaxies –

Diminished Andromeda, a mini Milky Way –

When the automatic sprinkler system

Kicks on at eight. 

 

        II

 

The street shimmers.  Frequencies

Collide in brass complaints,

Ethereal ministrations:

Car horns and Hip-Hop,

Screaming tweens in flip-flops

Throwing water balloons,

Oaths and salutations,

Sirens, sub-woofers,

The traffic cop blows his whistle,

Frampton Comes Alive.

 

        III

 

If the slices of a pie –

Sausage, pepperoni –

Were rearranged by an unseen hand,

They would still comprise a circle,

O voluptuous shape!

 

                        IV

 

Jeter’s bat describes an arc

The ball can’t comprehend;

The ball traces a trajectory

The right-fielder cannot grasp.

 

                        V

 

Euclidean cones packed with French vanilla,

Daisy Dukes and their attendant hemispheres,

The rhomboids, the rectangles,

The Mustangs, the Hummers.

                                   

                        VI

 

Through the convex of a contact lens

Or the unassisted eye,

A uniform sun explodes in spectrums

On the neighbor’s lawn.

 

                        VII

 

It’s hard to say

Where these blueberries fall

On the optimum ripeness

Bell-curve.

           

                        VIII

 

A grief of clouds

At half past five

Makes a shambles of

Our picnic.

                       

                        IX

 

Centuries of science have made possible

The following observation:

That satellite now rising above the trees

Has the same mellow hue

As corn on the cob.

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June 2015

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Patrick Walsh’s articles and poetry have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers both here and abroad.
More at his Website: www.patrickwalshpoetry.net.
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