spirit

your smile is brighter
than midsummer’s yellowest sun.
warmer on my heart.

cod liver oils
pleasant from what you offer.
give me the spoonful.

the old waiting room
filled with bowed backs and sad hearts.
butchers called doctors.

the gray sparrow knows
the way the fickle wind blows.
standing on firm ground.

time between seconds
the birth of a universe.
and the baby cries.

the consumer wins.
tuberculosis of death.
unending hunger.