Ambrosia - Field Report

Looking for the Win-Win in all this wishful drinking

got me thinking that I ought to pray in wordless groans

and be fed ambrosia by the doves

but they’d hold me to what I said once;

years or hours ago, I can’t be trusted- only thrown

I keep spinning my wheels

maybe nothings gonna change

I keep dreaming about the sheriff’s kid who I used to chew Skoal with

he was cruel to the other kids just for fun

I always sought them out later on, but I never had the stones to tell him off

he died alone years ago on a golf course with a gun

and I’m here spinning my wheels

maybe nothings gonna change

Time was, I could stand up straight, but I lost my balance with the ballast

weight

cast over the gunwales, overboard

I got nothing left to push up against but this imaginary resonance

starting at a spot on the opposite shore

and despite our sins we would not sink;

we were

buoyed by some brackish grace

our mouths like an ocean drink, we salt-shone in the sun

and the grackles learned the car alarms

keeping all the neighbors warned

and lovers armed

I do believe we’re going down.