Author Archives: Timothy P. Schilling
Octoberries (and a sniveling snail)
Moaning while pruning,
I find you
little man
slinking away from a fruit
you shouldn’t have eaten
in a season
it shouldn’t have known.
The fruit is the fruit
of God’s jumbo garden;
the season’s the season
of wisdom undone.
High five
What of the downpour
Is the lilac’s share?
More than you think.
More than you think
she’d allow.
Clouds
So essential to the divine
light show
Tennis
V of geese, just past Arnhem
They land to finish the job
of saving one’s soul
Windows
Outpacing the second hand
I gave it up, of course,
eventually,
dropping back to prove myself
against minutes and hours.
Now you’ll find me
napping in the shadows.
But I’ve hung a flag
on that fastest hand:
It’s good to know what was.




