A Michigan Drive

Any passion can be fed

or mended

in 61 million acres of Earth.

Kalamazoo alleys and northern creeks

can scream or whisper.

You don’t know until you walk there.

You will find

everything grows and erodes

and all is rebuilt elsewhere

the city brick to gravel

the river bank to the bed.

Choose to sleep or roam.
The borders are open.

Cloaked

The ego’s a fiend that changes clothes

to fit the visions in our mirrors

demanding gloss and powder.

You may see one

in rare naked moments

and find it’s really just a fragile beggar

masterfully persuading us

to feed and protect it.