a dream that i had of me slipping into carefulness.

Somewhere,

delusional billionaire's

are caught between running secrets

to the threshold of danger

to

building pyramids on the border

for peritoneal, Christian unity.

While

the rest of the world swells from

old ovaries and "Bachelorette" reruns.

Wont plant begonia's

because their fragrance is mysterious.

While the coal plants, like the lover

in his Wrangler jeans,

never returned. Like the dairy farmer

who sold his last heifer, the one

who without calf, grabbed at

her matted hair, as hay.

When the dangerous steel mill closed it's

petals into it's iron body

and rolled away.

Reviews

[andrew mitchell]

It’s chaos, discontent and selfishness seems to dominate society today. Nicely written Dana.

[h d e rushin]

thank you dearest Andrew...…..dana

[Robert Trakofler]

hmm.... looks like i wrote of what you just wrote of simultaneously about steel mills:) The title as Mr. Kentuck said is awesomeness in fact I think the title is a poem in itself! I have an affection for Detroit I get many folks that visit the store from your town and we always talk about the shared experiences we have. The neighborhood I have my store and now live in was once a bunch of boarded up storefronts and abandoned houses JL steel was my next door neighbor slag heap and brownfield. Its is now gentrified and filled with dog walkers (it is my experience that the true barometer for when a neighborhood flips is the amount of dog walkers per capita I call it the bunny real escape theory) I now hate my neighborhood and want to leave and not count myself amongst the entitled masses but I'm stuck to this bidness! I loved this poem Dana I would like to say maybe we would learn from our mistakes but that is of course silly and incredibly unhuman

[h d e rushin]

looking back, nothing is silly on appeal my friend..i love the story of dog walking. And this is the first defense I have read of it: How dogs are representative of some prophetic, ensuing resurrection. I agree with the perpendicularity of such slavish imitation but too am terrified of disinfection that it might bring. I want a dog (a tiny, cute white one) but not for the reasons of marking time or cleaning up neighborhoods.lol. Thanks for stopping by to visit me my friend.....I always appreciate it....dana

[Robert Trakofler]

you kidding I love to read you I look forward to my Dana fixes

[kentuck14]

Dana,
I like your title . . . It is a 'careless' world out there! Loved the images here. A sadness is laid deep in these lines.
T

[h d e rushin]

thank you dearest....jewels and more jewels.....dana

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you remind us of how the present times are so different and so hard for so many...the miners, coal workers...and my friends the farmers of Vermont trying so hard to make a living still doing what they know and love.
it is so sad...the old days and old careers are becoming fossils of themselves...
a world we can hardly keep up with...
i want to go back to the old days...i don't like living here.
excellent write that tells it like it is...
j.

[h d e rushin]

Walmart sells a gallon of milk for $1.19 cents. Even prorated it would cost a small farm dairy farmer three times that just to break even. But they got rid of the middle man (Dean distribution) and are now officially in the dairy business..Thats how conglomerates work Jacob. That's why Dollar Tree is so popular. / I pray for the delay in such fossilization......thanks my friend...dana