Alejandra Iberra
for Reina A. Prado

felt like a nice fit, still does

intelligent in areas
and quick to decide
where I am sluggish, asleep
no wish to activate

satisfied to be carried away
to be carried along

want to be free to make poetry
to die doing it

some one beside me, besides me
to decides
where what is practical is the matter

to be matter of fact for her, for me

poetry a sort of dream
I don’t enjoy waking from

she, poet too, professor, scholar
able to go between worlds

transitions by which I am overwhelmed

like the Captain and Tennille
or like Jack Sprat,
his wife and he, able to tackle
very opposite tasks

want someone, long for some one
with whom to take on
the world, the universe

how exhausted I grow,
I get
in the face of some tasks
some decisions to make

overwhelmed by what is
for some, so very simple

like going for ice cream
dinner or coffee or tea


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
1:30 a.m. 01.04.09