I
It just takes one dose
of perfectly red cow to
cure what ails you
II
Forty years go by –
What happened during those years
was not written down
III
You can understand
the hesitation when told
to speak to a rock
IV
Howdy neighbor – Mind
if we pass through? No problem –
We will go around
V
You have to admire
Storytellers who kill off
major characters
VI
This is where all God’s
water comes from – Spring up, oh
well – and sing to it
VII
I think we will pass
through after all – that Land is
forty years coming
Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert created a the Poetry Super Highway (an online publication and resource for poets), and hosted the Cobalt Cafe weekly poetry reading for almost 21 years. He’s authored 20 collections of poetry, including “I’m a Jew, Are You” (Jewish themed poems) and “Feeding Holy Cats” (Poetry written while a staff member on the first Birthright Israel trip), and most recently “Donut Famine” (Rothco Press, December 2016) and edited the anthologies “Ekphrastia Gone Wild”, “A Poet’s Haggadah”, and “The Night Goes on All Night.” He writes the daily web comic “Cat and Banana” with fellow Los Angeles poet Brendan Constantine. He’s widely published and reads his poetry wherever they let him.
