April 14

Sometimes
your brain goes numb
you search for
simile and
metaphor
and come up
empty

On those days
you need to
go out into the sunshine
watch the clouds
make shapes
coming apart
the way cotton candy did
when you were a child
You need to feel
the sunshine
warm the springtime
back into the earth

You need to forget about anything
but being
and the words
just may find a way
to assemble on the page
just like you knew they would