The Metrist Adrift

I just read the last poem to myself a couple times and laughed. I make a reference to my long hair in that poem, a reference so rarely made in my work and a reference never before posted here. I laughed because I recently cut my hair for the first time in 8 years -not counting trimmings to make sure it didn't go too far down my back. So yesh, The River Man has short hair now. An inside joke, I suppose, but nevertheless I laughed. And now you know.

Twenty-Two

They call me a dreamer
because I believe in the sky
and dangle lines of verse
from the stars at night.
But how would it feel
to grow old and die
without a destination in mind?

I don't want to know.