Basket Weaving
I
Fingers are fingers
and nothing more
though they weave
star searchers
and baskets
to carry
fruits and
soaps
and styluses
and marvelous things
that make so much sense
in that very moment
to spend eternity
in the drawer
you know the one
that drawer
where we keep all the...other stuff
its all that you ever were
a pile of twigs and bugs
whatever stained the rugs
your forehead
and one more said
“hey, isn’t this
a lovely day
to garner a breeze
and ask yourself
if they’re just fingers
and nothing more
II
spiderwebs
aren’t made by hand
but spun
from asses
of arachnids
I think at least
but, of course, I’m no priest
of…“spiderhood”
if you would
I’m just a man
whose clippings turn to sand
and dirt and ash
with a twisted eyelash
beckoning
my rolling waves
from you to me
come cross this sea
and heed
this digit’s call
and nothing more
except,
perhaps
just one more
what things
came from thyngs
a plushy platypus
an atom bomb
that tiptoed
cross the beach
shouting
each to each
Through symphony
and state highway screech
so many lessons to teach
all made by
of your little fingers
and nothing more.