And the earthworms cannot breathe

  I posted “Impatience” this time last year. It’s a poem about seeking goals. The first lines follow the hard work involved in aiming towards goals. The later lines move towards how things seem not to be working out. The Astro Turf suffocates the earthworms. Earlier this year I revisited the earthworm motif. In this poem I list

Impatience

roll out AstroTurf Pitch the Goalposts. Upon it play the game. It rasps your knees. Nowhere can you poke your finger in the soil and the earthworms cannot breathe. — Find me on Twitter. I tweet as @BeadedQuill