New Poem - Tenacity

Hey.

Here's a poem I wrote recently.  Patreon folk got to see it first.  (guys, it's sooooo cheap and easy to join, become a patron, and get all kinds of perks and curated stuff.  At this point, I just pity you for not being part of the cool kids club)


TENACITY

if 

there's blood, 

let me be 

manzanita, 

sanded slick and smooth by covert growth. 

Let it slake away. 

Keep my diet mean and temperate. 

Find me shining in an unswept grove 

like a crimson-orange bone, 

clutching the memory 

of three month's 

water sip. Breathe, 

I breathe in full, quiet 

comfort. And, should your feet betray you, 

lop me from the branch.  I'll support your wary, 

shuffling 

                gait 

til neither air nor water can further move us