POETRY: Switchbacks

Despite man’s

unrelenting

(and obnoxious)

effort

to plow straight thru

E V E R Y T H I N G .

Short, direct streets

grids and blocks

tall buildings with

S H A R P   E D G E S.

Calendar columns

and spreadsheets

with rows

and timelines

and

S Q U A R E   C O R N E R S.

(you’re late)

h o w e v e r

the humbling and messy

squiggly line

is anything but

directly up the mountain;

f o r c i n g   c h a n g e

pivots

obligatory

bows of inferiority!

along the straight and narrow path

we suspect we ought be on.