Cal Freeman
Riding Mower
Husserl, we can make it go
again, the Toro circling itself,
the late-inning rally
on the radio drowned out
by the engine,
the tumbler of gin
with the fresh grapefruit slice,
the Chesapeake Bay Retriever
circling the mower.
Husserl, I see too many
motes in verse,
in shafts of light,
too many dogs in dust,
too many planks
in the eye of summer.
Cal Freeman is the author of the books Fight Songs, Poolside at the Dearborn Inn, and The Weather of Our Names (due out later this year). Recent poems have appeared in The Glacier, Berkeley Poetry Review, Potomac Review, Panoply Zine, and Gargoyle.