Some words for the week

maybe they’ll find my poems

either today

or when I’m dead

or maybe never

maybe all this is for the void

for god

for myself

for you

for nothing

maybe they’ll find this one

and they’ll like it

maybe maybe maybe

what’s sure is that right now

I’m stopped in a line of cars

the road is being fixed

and my windows are down

I driven this route

since I could first drive

probably thousands of times

but I’ve never paused right here

there are small yellow birds

singing into the traffic

and is that water I hear?

I guess between the willows

there runs a creek

I never knew existed

I wonder what else I don’t

know

so much

Alexander Shalom Joseph is a writer from Gilpin County. He is a published author. For more information and to subscribe to Alexander’s Newsletter go to alexandershalomjoseph.com