Jim Leftwich -- June Bugs

June Bugs

Love's boat floated 

like a glove 

Loaded with glue

And oaken flutes

Blue kinetic estuaries 

and blunt epic 

arias pictures of 

arid rivers liver 

failure the riven 

azure love's boat 

As above embossed 

So below attuned 

To loss an 

oven for the 

cows in dreams 

we eat salads 

on the moon 

And chase the 

bugs of June

July 22, 2024

Virginia 

Jim Leftwich -- Forking Looms

Forking Looms 

What were you doing 

When Joe Biden 

Dropped out of the race?

Wheat and wind dripping,

Wear the going with 

Doubt and grace. I was 

Sitting in a chair in the 

Blue Ridge Mountains

Above Goose Creek 

Valley reading and 

Rereading Poems for

The Millennium Volume 

One. Split boots above 

Volleys treading air,

The bridges are loose 

And roaming, the 

Fountains speak 

In forking looms.

July 21, 2024

Virginia