Our host today at http://www.ethicalela.com for the third day of the July Open Write is Jennifer Jowett, with guest Ann E. Burg. They invite us to write poems about moments in nature. You can read the full prompt here and check out the poems throughout the day.
Bat Crap Crazy
it’s okay ~
go ahead, think it ~
we all know
the better title
for this poem
and how that expression
originated out of bats
in the belfry and rabies
from the droppings and I
still Googled to see if
anything had changed but
it’s all still the same
kind of crazy it always was
where here on the
Johnson Funny Farm at
33°8’42″N / 84°25’33″W
in Williamson, Georgia
at 6:10 a.m. with clear
skies at 77° with the
moon cradling its
own light and winking at
Venus to its 5:00 position
due East of my front door
I stand on the
porch listening to the calls
of the Eastern Wood Pewees
from all the dead trees
that used to be their homes
now lying like corpses across
the acres and see our
one single solitary bat that
flies in endless circles
overhead
as it always does
from dusk to dawn
and I’m not sure
which of us
is the
bat shit crazier
…..oops
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