Reckoning - Oneida

Still again

My thoughts return to wandering

Fields of grass

Soften savage muttering

Backyard dreams

Of meadows find me promising

Lushness that I sold her

Studded, stumped and bouldered

Still the swaying, idle playing

Summer scenes are beckoning

Calm again

Ghosts and angers flickering

Laps and leaves

Cast shadows on the glimmering

Checkerboards

Twist and buckle, shuddering

Flattened gaping grins

Stitched together hymns

Bring dismissals, sighs, denials

At last a reckoning