A Frank Discussion Poem by Jimi Doyle

Here is the serenity:
it fell out as we entered the cab

Here is the loyalty:
Tammy Wynette singing that song again

Here is the courage:
blinded staggered down

Here is the sacrifice:
rusted in cans

Here is the wisdom:
bursting forth with steady double hunger

Here is the faith:
pleading with the executioner
afraid at last

Here is the joy:
siezed in crumbled robbery

Here is the promise:
sea pines and the scent of the sea
the rain bird starts a song

Here is the love:
reduced to stymied poetry