Sue Patterson

Forest

 

We believe in the wrong stories,

when someone else offers

to pick up the check.

But the right words

spoken 

at the right moment,

can transform us.

 

Glory is no ordinary topsoil.

A better toxicity test

extracted

with percussion

and a horn section.

 

You can miss the punchline

in any genre.

Readymade alignment,

eclipsed,

with home made

double-decker

consequence.