If all that
you can do 
is move one 
leaf from sidewalk 
to the grass
then do that 
for even one 
small gesture when 
combined with others 
that others do 
changes the world 
faster than the 
sweeping grand gestures 
of the schemers 

I’ve finally decided 
to be dumb
not stupid or
ignorant just dumb
plain old dumb
and not Dumbledore
or dumb forevermore 
dumb for now
not for nothing 
just a while 
that is until 
all the others 
find their own 
way out or
back out from 
where they’ve so
conveniently stuck their 
heads be it
sand or arse

Even those 
who think
don’t know 
at all
they might 
have found 
the breadcrumbs 
but I 
have long
ago took
my flight 
leaving them 
to wonder 
and I 
to ponder 

There’s this one 
melody that no
matter the place 
or time or
person or thing 
it reminds me 
of someone else 
like a ghost 
it taps and 
when I turn 
no one’s there 
except my ache
is that what 
it’s come to 
a dull gnaw
a taste of 
a tidbit something 
stuck between teeth 
or maybe something 
I’d had once 
too much of 

I see snowmen 
walking between snowflakes 
buried under layers 
of down and 
wool and hats
heavy boots and 
mittens and breathing 
smoke from mouths 
everything slows now 
though the desire 
to get in
outweighs the out
and prints pace 
from car to 
door to car 
like dance steps 
painted onto floors 
of some school 
teaching social manners