Listen Poem by Josephine Lauderdale

Scratch it...I'm done
It only lasts so long
It comes, it expresses
It goes

It knows what it knows

Then
It makes a noise that becomes harder to hear

It pounds and scratches
It whistles and beats
Tosses and turns

And flies from left to right

Hold on as I might
It
Like water...
Can not be held
When it doesn't want to

It will run like a river
Or
Crawl like a creak

Bring into a wave
Lap at the shore

Form peaks and foam
And try not to dry up