O GREAT UNCERTAINTY

"O Great Uncertainty," Montana BLACK spray paint and papercut paint chip sample on 4" x 6" watercolor postcard.

One of the cards I sent out as part of my "O Eschaton" series of poems for the 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest.

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O GREAT UNCERTAINTY

Once upon a wobbling moon
once upon a sunny day flood of epic proportion

we turned to you, O Great Uncertainty,
seeking confidence that we ourselves greatly lack:

once in a lifetime, the hundred-year event
became an occurrence every five or seven years

and you merely shrugged your metaphorical shoulders,
drew in the vapor of the stratosphere

and exhaled in a soft wind
that became monsoon, typhoon, hurricane.

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All artwork and poems by Troy Kehm-Goins © 2021 Troy's Work Table Publishing.