Kurt Philip Behm

Tasting The Past (+3)

The rusting of years,

the flavor of time

 

Calling you back

—patina unrhymed

 

(Ronald McDonald House: January, 2020)

 

 

Verbatim

 

I’m a Poet

—I need no justification

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

 

 

Vainglory

 

The curse of public opinion,

feigned history of the truth

 

Generations of self interest,

freedom—time abused

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

 

 

 

 

Dream Weaver

 

Forty years shopworn yet still taut,

the past a seamstress rare

 

Her words reknitted, stitched and purled

—to dress a future bare

 

    (Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)