From Moving Day
/The Path of Least Resistance
Freedom fighter
against satisfaction.
Suddenly in negotiations.
*
Thumbing through
the market peaches at noon.
Gathering pork chops and flowers,
red chili paste.
Wearing a hat like a white flag.
*
Divebombed again
by the garden’s piggish, guzzling bees.
*
I awoke in strong arms.
Assaulted by pleasure.
*
The “awesome” in this is silent.
*
I surrender.
Sleepwalker
Planting you
squirrel-like,
behind my breastbone,
walking out at 8 am
when the world smells
like maple syrup
and
dry cleaning.
*
Catalpas drop
their orchidy lips
all over
the walk
*
I'm just another zombie of love.
*
"We have pork chops
and each other."
*
What are all
these trees
doing?
*
A little confused, is all.
Can't keep my mind on
anything but you.
Still dreaming a half-mile after I step on the train.
*
"I thought you said brains."
Them too.
I'm tuckered. Whew.
Maureen Thorson is the author of three chapbooks: "Twenty Questions for the Drunken Sailor," (flynpyntar/dusie press 2009), "Mayport" (Poetry Society of America 2006) and "Novelty Act" (Ugly Duckling Presse 2004). She lives in Washington, D.C., where she co-curates the In Your Ear reading series at the DC Arts Center and runs Big Game Books, the tiniest press in the world.