Hans Ostrom Poems

Hit Title Date Added
111.
Prayer In Twelve Words

God, thanks.
Please forgive.
Help and
heal me.
...

112.
Fire Trucks,11: 03 P.M.

Inside sirens, emergency cycles
through its opera. Inside trucks,
firefighters suppress alarmed fear.
Inside firefighters, hearts cycle
...

113.
Psychic Windows Washed

Red sun dropped below a psych-
iatrist’s left brain, not
to mention the Cascade Range.
The psychiatrist’s opinions rose:
...

114.
Expect Delays

At the annual International Patience Festival,
held every other year (or so) ,
participants double-park on each other’s nerves;
wait in lines leading up to
...

115.
Variations On A Nursery Rhyme

Yet and Still
Went up a hill
To fetch
A connotation.
...

116.
Mistakes

If each mistake I’ve ever made in this,
My life, were to become a snowflake, drifts
Would rise above the eaves. I’d open wide
The door and look into a blue-tinged bank
...

117.
Hiram Goes To Café Fear

Hiram thinks, “Here I am sitting inside
my shirt, shoes, and trousers, on a chair
at a table in a café. I am afraid
of dying. Also of nothing. I tell
...

118.
Terribly Important

I wonder if I’ll be welcome,
and welcomed, in Heaven. I
wonder if Heaven exists, even
as I’ve risen from the font, and
...

119.
Tourist

Down a long cascade of white
steps in a seaside town, a man hurries.

By contrast people of the town
...

120.
Doing Another Kind Of Math

Bach over Blues
times Rock over
Mozart equals
...

Close
Error Success