Kurt Philip Behm

That Place I Wander (+1)

My level of concern

  goes only so deep

 

I care only to there

  in meters or feet

 

Beyond that depth

  lies a hidden zone

 

Where beneath the caring

  is what’s really known

 

In my efforts to hide

  from the surface again

 

My words become sheltered

  immune from the pain

 

Below its demeanor

  I now call out to you

 

From that place that I wander

  —and keep out of view

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

           Smokescreen

 

“Commercially Successful”

   —the metaphysical oxymoron

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)