Strangeness Poem by Barry Middleton

Strangeness? Try the great swamp
at midnight looking for panic.

Run around the moon six times
before sleeping with a witch.

Split your multiple personalities,
and plant wildflowers in the cracks.

Chase a raven from the pine tree,
and search for turtles laying eggs.

Find the similarities in things,
stone, feathers, and insect wings.

In sleep the poetry is like a rock
tossed into water, then the ripples.

Try for the innuendo, the thing
in the mind after blackbirds.

And yes, I found the rain tree,
I planted it beside a bench long ago.