gary lundy | YOU WILL MISS THE ARBITRARY

 

YOU WILL MISS THE ARBITRARY

collisions of random exchanges
they shuffle along sidewalks
glazed in ice a car rolls circles
moves too fast to avoid the
billboard new high price hotel
once last night we rolled over
and out of bed turning our
phone off smooth pits and
curves an apple picked earlier
in washington the dead winged
ant in prewashed packaged
lettuce another once important
poet dead now twenty four
hours there are dreams we
had when time played forth
coming now wander in their
moments abstracted from
anything as real as this
ordinary sightless day

 

Author’s Bio

gary lundy’s poems have appeared most recently in Setu: Western Voices 2020, The BeZine, Defunkt Magazine, filling Station, Ethel, and The Collidescope. his most recent book, each room echoes absence, was released by FootHills Publishing (March 2018). Gary is a retired English professor and queer living in Missoula, Montana.